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to: Rich Gauszka
from: Frank Haber
date: 2006-11-30 11:35:42
subject: Re: Antivirus programs for OSX?

From: "Frank Haber" 

Very slow is an understatement.  On my iBook G4 1.3/40G, half-full, it
takes nearly a half hour just to enumerate what it's going to scan! 
(Normal finder; swipe-select everything default-visible under the startup
volume.

Try to select your boot disk, and you get, 'Scanning the "whole
startup disk" "causes problems."'  Imagine how this would
fly on the PC side!  Ah, naivete'.

My heavy Macaholic friends scan periodically to catch PC virsuses in attachments.

I wonder whether it catches the Morris worm and other xxNIX classics.

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