I agree.  A subscription to the CIAC bulletins
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins.html will show that Apple folks can be a
little disingenuous about how virus or malicious code free they are.

Bob
'90 Westy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]
> On Behalf Of B
> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 7:48 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: NVC at all (computer question)
>
> Eeek!   Don't get complacent with a Mac.  I'm an old enough crone to
> remember when Apple machines were the target for all the nasty stuff.
> Mischief follows market share.   Currently Apple is gaining in market
> share (that may change with the release of Windows 7 which, I've read,
> is what Vista [spit!] should have been).
>
> Thanks for the review of the pay versus free versions.  I'll consider
> upgrading, because I do use and value all three of these apps.
>
>
> B&S
> '87 Westy 'Esmerelda Blanc'
> SoCal
>
>
>
> On Jan 9, 2009, at 9:16 AM, craig cowan wrote:
>
> > I didn't want to say it....
> > But i agree "Get a mac".
> >
> > AVG is a really great free antivirus program.
> > Adaware and Spybot are good as well. In general all of these
> > programs are
> > exponentially nicer if you pay for them rather than the free copy.