When will there be AV for Mac, you think?
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§ ita § - Feb 17, 2006 1:00:08 pm PST #7133 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
DCJensen - Feb 17, 2006 6:53:50 pm PST #7134 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
When will there be AV for Mac, you think?
Antivirus?
Forgive me if you are not referring to Antivirus. There has been various AV programs for macs for decades. Most died of anemia, but NAV for Mac is still out there. Virex I have because it had a version free with .mac accounts.
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tommyrot - Feb 17, 2006 7:02:17 pm PST #7135 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Virex I have because it had a version free with .mac accounts.
Me too. I think I've used it once or twice.
Before there were any Mac viruses discovered, what did Mac antivirus software actually do? Check all executables against a list of virus definitions - i.e. a list that had zero virus definitions in it?
NoiseDesign - Feb 17, 2006 7:04:56 pm PST #7136 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
There were actually Mac viruses back on the old OS. nvir could be quite bad if my memory is correct.
DCJensen - Feb 17, 2006 7:19:54 pm PST #7137 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Also? the autostart worm caused a tizzy.
amych - Feb 18, 2006 6:04:34 am PST #7138 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I have Virex on this machine. In addition to Mac stuff, it claims to scan for Windows and Unix virii -- I suppose on the theory that even if I don't get infected, I wouldn't want to pass on any unclean mail attachments to people who might be affected.
DCJensen - Feb 18, 2006 6:21:00 am PST #7139 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
That's right, amych.
tommyrot - Feb 18, 2006 8:24:54 am PST #7140 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oh yeah, I think if you run Virtual PC, the Virtual PC side of things is still susceptible to Windows virii.
ION, I want some sort of USB thermometer so I can track temperature changes over time. I'd think something like that would be cheap, but so far I've only found expensive scientific ones.
eta: The last time I googled "usb thermometer" was a few months ago. Since then, this [link] showed up, for $39. Hmm....
Zenkitty - Feb 19, 2006 6:24:05 pm PST #7141 of 10003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I cannot understand why technology hates me, when I love it so.
So I accidently deleted some videos. Re-downloading them would take a long time and be a PITA. So I dl'ed this thing called WinUndelete, that promised to restore them. It found them, but would not restore them, because... well, I don't know why, exactly. But I do know now that I wasn't supposed to put the program on the same "logical disk" as the files I was trying to restore. So I deleted the program, and put the exe file that creates the program on a CD-RW, and tried to then install the program on another CD-RW, and it won't do it.
Now I have what apparently are partially restored files on my freaking D drive, and a useless application. This is taking a long time and is a PITA, which is what I was trying to avoid.
Does anyone have any clue what I may done wrong here?
DXMachina - Feb 20, 2006 2:32:48 am PST #7142 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
When you installed the WinUndelete program to the same logical drive as the files you wanted to restore, parts of those files were probably overwritten by the files for the program. When Windows deletes a file, it doesn't actually erase it, but just marks the references to it in the file index as deleted, meaning that it can write new stuff over those spaces on the drive. However, the actual data is still intact. When you install new files, Windows will likely write them to the areas on the disk you just had the system declare deleted, which then destroys the previous data. That's probably why WinUndelete didn't work. You installed it on top of the data you were trying to save.