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Doh!

Good thing I never bought the darn thing.

PRECIOUS!!!!

ouch.... Symantec isn't gonna like that, or maybe they are. They're the ones claiming OSX is flawed. Well.... the software we trust isn't, so did this glitch come intetionally or not is my question.

buy an antivirus program for mac.

fugging tools.

yeah, i'm talking to you.

Putting that crap on your Mac, messes it up anyway.

We don't need their sh_t

but there no viruses on the Mac ... I don't get it.

An OS without 1 virus.

An app to protect the 1 OS without a virus.

The app leaves a hole for viruses.

What irony.

Run for the hills the sky is falling!

Another reason not to run anti-virus software on a mac.
Funny thought that a anti-virus software program would CREATE the problem.

That's just downright funny.

NO

we aint gonna take it

we're not gonna take it...anymore1111111111111

Finally, someone puts a hot poker into Symantec.

"The only solution at this point is to filter RAR archives at email or proxy gateways, or disable and uninstall Norton AntiVirus," MacFixIt reports. "Until further notice, we recommend that users uninstall AntiVirus."

Funny. I've always recommended that user uninstall Norton AntiVirus. Unless they're running Windows. In that case, they should uninstall Windows.

Bwahahahah!

Tera Patricks
Mac360

**MDN's magic word "didnt" as in 'I didn't say that, did I?'

Who needs or uses anti-virus software on a Mac????

If you insist on using AV on a Mac, at least try ClamXAV. Its free (actually donationware) and open source. No conflict of interest.

The most insecure software you can run on OS X turns out to be NAV. You can't make this stuff up.

I think that Symantec was trying to create a problem so that they could fix it. Be honest people! Where do you think all the viruses and fixes are coming? The truth is out there.

Haven't used NAV in more than 2 years. Clearly, they've got problems.

oh the irony

It's been a LONG way down from SUM for Symantec. Symantec is (or at least should be) pretty much irrelevant to any Mac user.

Without wanting to make accusations, has anyone checked their Windows software to see whether similar holes are introduced?

[French accent]

See? Do you seeeeeee? Do you see how easy it is to make you American Mac users flustered. We French would never have such problems. Why?

Because we are better than you.

It's very simple, really. You stoopid mouth-breathers are all alike. It does not matter from where you hail in your vast, corrupt excuse for a nation. You all eat your drive-thru food like de pigs that you are. You get whatever you deserve for using Macs and ridiculing Jerry Lewis.

So, go about your pathetic lives whilst we Frenchmen continue to leer at our women and suckle at ze teat of our government's largesse. Oh, what's that? Largesse? Yes, you say you don't know what that means? Of course you don't -- you're all stupid in-bred, flatulent American dogs. Now . . .

GIVE US BACK OUR STATUE OF LIBERTY!!!!!!!!

[/French accent]

Oh the things we Mac users do to save our blinded by Bill Gates friends.

The only reason we use any AV software on our macs at work is so those who send us the infected files from their windows machines aren't reinfected since they can't understand they must run their AV software at least 87 times a day.

We have a mixed lab environments where people are notrious for using a winblowz machine to create a document then go to the Mac lab to finish working on it. After that, it gets sent to some other person who insists that "Windows is better." Thus taking down our network because they unleash 500 million worms.

MDNMW == "twenty" as in the number of hours it takes to remove all the components of Norton AV for Mac. Stupid stuff is installed in just about every stinking folder it can write to.

If you're running Mac OS X and go out and spend good money on $ymantec (or any other) <i>"antivirus" you deserve what you get!

I mean you're already getting reamed by $ymantec with their protection racket; you might as well get raped some more by the nefarious assholes on the 'net too.

MDN Word: "business" - Yea, I know it's only business nothing personal

Symantec Software SUCKS?

How can it be?

Virusymantec.

MW --name---How do it know?

I got Symantec Anti Virus for free from my university's computer resources. The only reason I got AV was out of consideration for PC users who I might forward an infected email to that would have been sent to me by another PC user in the first place. Since my consideration for PC users is actually pretty weak, I just uninstalled AV. You PC users are on your own.

Why would Symantic make anti virus Software for a Mac in the first place? How many do they expect to sell?

"Why would Symantic make anti virus Software for a Mac in the first place? How many do they expect to sell?"

It has been suggested that Symantec is worried about losing business after MS gets into the AV business. They need to create new markets to make up for lost Windows business. They appear to be trying to create business on the Mac platform by spreading FUD about OS X.

one more reason to get AVG antivirus on any windows machine for free, or Clam AV for cross platform use. I never worry about sending anything to friends from my Powerbook, most everyone uses a service that already scans the emails for malware.

Too funny!

Guess they need to call it Symantec Virus software for MacOS X

The complete absence of any comment from MDN made me laugh! There is nothing to say when reality is even more bizarre than could have been imagined!

Headline: First Trojan for MacOS X
Subtitle: First piece of malware which is not free; requires purchase

Only $78.71 from Office Nation. Buy today and save!

MW: million, as in “Million dollar ad”

My anti-virus approach is this:

System Preferences
Software Update
Check for updates: Daily
Download important updates in the background
(and, once alerted to an update) Install

Also, when MDN or other news outlets inform me of software updates out there, I can initiate Software Update on my own if the daily check hasn't transpired yet.

*IF* there is virus number 1, I trust Apple over anyone else to provide the solution. They are the ones that are going to understand the problem, plug up the holes, issue an update, and render the virus dead the fastest. Anti-virus software can't protect against threats that are yet to be discovered.

An oh-so-rare case of TRUE IRONY!

I've heard somewhere that Norton is able to resolve a part of the problems it creates. That was for the disc tools, looks like it also applies for virus software.

Another reason not to worry about antivirus software on the Mac...