Re: anti virus

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 16:08:28 +0100, Johan W. Elzenga <nomail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> tacit <tacitr@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Yes; ClamX A/V is very good.
>> But you do not need antivirus for a Mac. There are no viruses which can
>> affect or infect OS X.

> How can a program be 'very good' if it doesn't do anything useful? ;-)

Well, it does exactly nothing very well, and doesn't break your system.
A counter-example would be Norton's AV for OS-X, which is very intrusive
while doing nothing positive.
.

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