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Carol M

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Groupon have an offer on. Their blurb.....

Choose from the following options for Panda Global Protection 2012 and Panda Antivirus for Mac, distributed by Panda Security.

• £9 for a five-year Panda Security package for one PC (94% off)

• £19 for a five-year Panda Security package for three PCs (89% off)

• £19 for a three-year Panda Security package for one Mac (80% off)

• £35 for a three-year Panda Security package for three Macs (70% off)

http://www.groupon.co.uk/deals/birmingham-special/Panda-Security/11031286
 
Frankly if you were looking at Panda you might as well go with Avast or AVG as they are "free"

Personally I think it's worth paying the extra for Eset's NOD32 ... best by far imho

I am a geek but work in IT so that's my excuse!!!

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I use comodo at work and avg on my s3

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Never heard of anyone with a Mac actually having had a virus of any type either.
 
pvr said:
Never heard of anyone with a Mac actually having had a virus of any type either.
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'...So, in summary, the Mac malware situation has been worse than it is now - but you shouldn't be complacent...' - a statement by Graham Cluley who has quite a lot of credibility in the industry,
 
I know it exists, but I have never heard of anyone that I know getting one.
 
pvr said:
I know it exists, but I have never heard of anyone that I know getting one.
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I've never heard of anyone I know getting HIV or AIDS, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't wear a condom when shagging a girl I don't know :poke:

Freebie MAC AV product
 
jakethecatuk said:
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'...So, in summary, the Mac malware situation has been worse than it is now - but you shouldn't be complacent...' - a statement by Graham Cluley who has quite a lot of credibility in the industry,
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Not really an unbiased article, being from a purveyor of anti-malware products. The same scare stories have been going around for almost 20 years. Each year there's another prophecy that the Mac will be the next big target. Still waiting.

That pie makes the problem appear huge, but that pie only represents the total 2.7% of Macs that had a trace of that exploit.

None of those listed is a virus though, and the malware/trojan attack vector was through java/flash.

So systems that don't have flash or java installed (or systems where it only runs by exception - like mine) would have been safe from those attacks.

The only 'virus' I ever saw on the Mac was when infected Windows users sent infected Microsoft Office files to me to disinfect & return.

A lot of the malware around relies on the weakest link in the chain - I.e. the user. If they just thought for a second about what they were clicking, or why that £200 piece of software was being offered for free, then I'm sure there'd be a huge reduction in infection rates.
 
Macs aren't in the firing line as they only represent less than 5% of installed OS across the globe.

A relative small catch for the cyber criminals who are after your data/money

So unless that % increases then osx users should be safe :)


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jakethecatuk said:
I've never heard of anyone I know getting HIV or AIDS, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't wear a condom when shagging a girl I don't know :poke:
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Using your analogy, I therefore assume you wear one 24 hours a day, just in case some sex fiend rapes you. And do you double/triple bag, just in case your first one punctures - just like lots of windows users seem to do by running multiple AV products on their machines?

I choose not to wear one 24/7 as I understand how tiny the risk is.
 
pvr said:
I know it exists, but I have never heard of anyone that I know getting one.
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I'm an active reader on one of the Mac forum and I can't recall than anyone on the forum has an an issue with a virus. Just following a few simple precautions and it's very unlikely you'll get a virus on a Mac.
 
WLH said:
pvr said:
I know it exists, but I have never heard of anyone that I know getting one.
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I'm an active reader on one of the Mac forum and I can't recall than anyone on the forum has an an issue with a virus. Just following a few simple precautions and it's very unlikely you'll get a virus on a Mac.
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I don't think Kaspersky has ever found anything on mine that I can remember and there doesn't seem to be anything in the previous reports.
 
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