virus checking on a mac

[shadylane]

anyway to check viruses on a mac

[shipwreck]

Well, there are programs like Virex, but it's pretty hard to get a virus on a Mac.

Edit: it looks like Apple actually dropped support for Virex earlier this summer, so I just wouldn't worry about it at this point. The main way to get a virus on a Mac is to have a macro run in Office, so just turn off the autorun on macros in Office and don't open weird attachments in your email.

[Animefalcon]

Virex is one
It most likelly you got old virus from early mac's (when the IBM PC was the Virus free PC )

[Quackzilla]

There are so few macs, and they are such a pain in the ass to program for that few if any people bother to make viruses for them.

[CYRiX]

psh, macs arent good enough to have viruses, all they are good for is a/v editing.

[mgriff]

I have an old norton program for mac, if that helps, I'd have to double check if it detects viruses

EDIT: BTW, which OS are you running.

EDIT #2: If you search ebay, you'll find some cheap Norton Antivirus software for Mac

[shipwreck]

psh, macs arent good enough to have viruses, all they are good for is a/v editing.

They are actually perfectly good computers for what the majority of people use computers for: surfing the web, checking email, listening to music, working with office style documents, looking at photos, etc...