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Antivirus for Mac?
« on: June 24, 2006, 08:09:40 PM »
I am looking for a free antivirus scanner for my stupid Macintosh.
YES THEY DO GET VIRUSES! And I don't want one.

Looking for something free... and simple... with on demand and on access scanner.

I have an iMac, 266MHz, 5GB HD, OS 9.

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    Re: Antivirus for Mac?
    « Reply #1 on: June 26, 2006, 02:10:17 AM »
    Wow, this is hard! the only things I found was stuff for os 10, or os X, and it was(mostly) not free, and was (Barf) McAfee, and (run screaming, they have come to screw up macs too) Norton :-X. I even went to the apple website and looked around and found a bunch of nothing. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2169862 I'm going to go to bed now, but I'll keep looking tomarrow, which is now, so in several hours.

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    Re: Antivirus for Mac?
    « Reply #2 on: June 26, 2006, 07:22:43 PM »
    OH WOW! If I can find my old backup disks I have a freewaree antivirus YAY! ITS SOOOO COOL! It will ike take care of any pre 1994 virus and a few newer ones :D (I'm just jokeing but if you want i I can go and find it for you)

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    Re: Antivirus for Mac?
    « Reply #3 on: June 26, 2006, 08:00:21 PM »
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    OH WOW! If I can find my old backup disks I have a freewaree antivirus YAY! ITS SOOOO COOL! It will ike take care of any pre 1994 virus and a few newer ones :D (I'm just jokeing but if you want i I can go and find it for you)
    Sure, all I need is the name, and I will find it myself.
    (Name and company of the AV scanner)

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    Re: Antivirus for Mac?
    « Reply #4 on: June 26, 2006, 09:00:09 PM »
    Well its called... uhh... oh yeah its called Disinfectent 1.7.3 it was programed at the University of Oregon i think. But uhh. I hope that there is a newer version becasue 1.7.3 was made for System 6.0.8

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    Re: Antivirus for Mac?
    « Reply #5 on: June 26, 2006, 10:23:25 PM »
    Its V3.6 now. I found it.
    It here:
    http://micro.uoregon.edu/virusftp.html

    if anyone can download it, please send it to me in a ZIP file. I cant download it.

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    Re: Antivirus for Mac?
    « Reply #6 on: June 27, 2006, 12:56:40 PM »
    First of all. The version I had had nothing to do with Symtec. It was writen AT the univertist but not by the students. The version I have is kinda jittery but gets the job donw.

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    Re: Antivirus for Mac?
    « Reply #7 on: June 27, 2006, 01:53:16 PM »
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    First of all. The version I had had nothing to do with Symtec. It was writen AT the univertist but not by the students. The version I have is kinda jittery but gets the job donw.
    OK,
    The link I found was not for Norton. The Norton post was something I found, it was information about something that the UO offers.
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    Its V3.6 now. I found it.  
    It here:
    http://micro.uoregon.edu/virusftp.html
     
    if anyone can download it, please send it to me in a ZIP file. I cant download it.
    This link is for the AV Disinfectant designed by UO students.
    The problem I am having is that I cant get it to download, and I would like someone to download it, and zip it so I could get it onto my flash drive and onto my Mac.

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    Re: Antivirus for Mac?
    « Reply #8 on: June 27, 2006, 04:06:03 PM »
    I get a file does not exsist message upong trying. :(

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    Re: Antivirus for Mac?
    « Reply #9 on: June 27, 2006, 05:26:11 PM »
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    I get a file does not exsist message upong trying. :(
    Same here. The page is no longer updated.

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    Re: Antivirus for Mac?
    « Reply #10 on: August 06, 2006, 12:42:46 AM »
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    I get a file does not exsist message upong trying. :(
    Same here. The page is no longer updated.

    The program probably isn't either.  ;)

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    « Reply #11 on: August 06, 2006, 09:13:19 AM »
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    I get a file does not exsist message upong trying. :(
    Same here. The page is no longer updated.

    The program probably isn't either.  ;)
    updated last in 1998! (Protects you against 15 viruses!)

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    Re: Antivirus for Mac?
    « Reply #12 on: August 06, 2006, 09:50:05 AM »
    Obviously that is NO solution.

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    Re: Antivirus for Mac?
    « Reply #13 on: August 07, 2006, 10:22:51 AM »
    the mac AV scanner i use is Virex (the mac version of virusscan)

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    Re: Antivirus for Mac?
    « Reply #14 on: August 07, 2006, 01:19:26 PM »
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    the mac AV scanner i use is Virex (the mac version of virusscan)
    But that requires a subscription, right?