Very good online virus scanner

[Nikolai Sklobovsky]

While this post shall not be of great interest for our mac friends (after all, there are NO viruses for mac, for this or that reason), I' d like to share this link with my windows brethren: F-Secure (http://support.f-secure.com/enu/home/ols.shtml).
Free, very thorough, very good virus scanner/remover.
While it will take its sweet time to scan your photo-filled terabytes of storage, but, believe you me, it would worth it.
It may catch stuff that Mcafee, NAV and Trend-Micro combined may overlook (root-kits included!). I certainly was surprised when it found a few things on what I assumed to be a "clean" machine.
HTH

[Asher Kelman]

How about scanning for windows-vicious viruses carried on mac images files or MS word docs received from PC users?

Asher

[Nikolai Sklobovsky]

How about scanning for windows-vicious viruses carried on mac images files or MS word docs received from PC users?

Asher

Viruses do not cross-breed (unless they are cross-platform and hit already poor java applets).

Sorry, no visures for you, my friend (yet - lol)!

[Sean DeMerchant]

Viruses do not cross-breed (unless they are cross-platform and hit already poor java applets).

Sorry, no visures for you, my friend (yet - lol)!

There is always a first:

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/osxleapa.html

Beyond that, the OS has plenty of security holes:

http://search.us-cert.gov/query.html?rq=0&ht=0&qp=&qs=&qc=&pw=100%25&ws=1&la=&qm=0&st=1&nh=25&lk=1&rf=2&oq=&rq=0&si=1&qt=OS+X&x=0&y=0

And there are lots of application based security holes.

The only secure computer is one that is not networked and locked in a room where humans cannot touch it. :o) OS X is simply not as inviting of a target for hackers as you can infect many more windows systems for the same effort and build a much larger botnet.

enjoy,

Sean

[Nikolai Sklobovsky]

The only secure computer is one that is not networked and locked in a room where humans cannot touch it. :o) OS X is simply not as inviting of a target for hackers as you can infect many more windows systems for the same effort and build a much larger botnet.

enjoy,

Sean

Very much my way of thinking!

[John_Nevill]

I've tried countless AV software and can highly recommend avira, it has a very small footptint and is always up to date.

[Don Ferguson Jr.]

http://www.ewido.net/en/buy/

Ewido is a great free anti spywear remover .They have a 30 day free trial then you get the free version.
Tech support guys told me about it and it caught a trojan Norton and webroot spysweeper did not .I still have free version and would recommend it.
Regards
Don

[Ray West]

Hi Don,

afiak, thats AVG from Grisoft - I've used it for years. After Peter Norton sold out, anything named 'Norton' sucks.

Best wishes,

Ray

[Richard McNeil]

I am using NOD32. I have had for for about 2 months with no problems.