Re: AV for OSX

[Michael Salmon <lonestarr13 () gmail com>]

I know you said to consider a Home User scenario and I'd say running AV on
a Mac at home is a personal choice and depends on how responsible the
person is when using the computer.  I've been running ClamXav at home for
years and haven't noticed any issues caused by it, but at the same time it
also hasn't caught much... actually I think it may have only caught 1 or 2
potential viruses in the past 5 years.
What about in a corporate/work environment, is there value in running AV on
Mac's for catching Windows viruses before passing them on to Windows users?
 Email attachments or files downloaded off the interwebs, stuff like that.
 Devils Advocate may be if you are scanning all incoming/outgoing emails at
the email server and scan files saved to the file server, it's probably not
much cause for concern to run anti-virus on macs.



On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Alex Kornilov <alex.kornilov3 () mail ru>wrote:

>  On 8/24/12 6:15 PM, Jeremy Pommerening wrote:
>
> I run Sophos on my MAC and don't notice any performance hit.  But I am NOT
> as smart as John Strand.
>
> Jeremy Pommerening
> CISSP,GCFA,GPEN,GAWN,GCFW,
> MCSE Win2K, MCSE NT4
>
> I don't think so. You passed very significantly exams. Giac and ISC are
> most valuable titles in security industry.
>
> Only MCSE is rubbish.
>
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