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Jul 20, 10 - 09:10 am Comment from: the other steve jobs

I've been on the Internet since 1993 with my PowerBook 100. Buck naked on the Internet. Never a single firewall or anti-virus. Ever. Servers too.

Not a single problem in 17 years.

Jul 20, 10 - 09:11 am Comment from: CrizzoDesigns

I have never had a virus or malware on my Mac!

This is actually a good thing. As much as we talk about not having any viruses, the IT departments in major corporations will not allow a computer on their network without AV. This will allow Apple to fill that check box.

Jul 20, 10 - 09:13 am Comment from: joey

Naked since 2002 - NO probs,

None of you have kids, obviously. This is something our family could use.

Jul 20, 10 - 09:25 am Comment from: silverhawk

One virus under OS9 since 1988. No problems ever with OSX. Thank you Apple!

2003 Mac user. Never a problem.

Jul 20, 10 - 09:32 am Comment from: Steve516

OSX has built in parental restrictions that are easy to activate. No need to purchase anything else.

http://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/#parentalcontrols

Jul 20, 10 - 09:32 am Comment from: NCIceman

I gotta tell ya, I had my WoW account hacked a couple weeks ago, and I only play on a mac. So either their backend got hacked, or they got a keylogger on my mac from one of the WoW sites I visited. I was stunned. I run the mac firewall too. I suspect it was a keylogger that got in from a flash vulnerability (I had not loaded 10.1 yet).

So I no longer take security on the mac for granted. That said, the last mcafee product I tried was a dog that freaked my system out and I had to remove it. I'll enjoy the extra peace of mind, provided it is not a resource hog.

Got a virus from a floppy disc using OS 7.5, I think, in '87.

As long as you avoid floppies you should be good to go.

Oh, McAfee, the company that's been providing wheat farmers with Mermaid Damage Insurance, since 1989.

Jul 20, 10 - 09:45 am Comment from: Vatdoro

OS X has built in parental controls that will easily do ALL of the features listed for McAfee. Good luck trying to sell features that come standard with every mac.

Jul 20, 10 - 09:48 am Comment from: wannabe

NClceman, most likely someone simply guessed your password. If you use the same, or similar passwords on multiple sites, that can make it easier.

Most of theses features are already available under Parental Controls Preference pane.

Besides the Parental Controls, you can also use Open DNS as your DNS server. It'll screen out all the nasty websites from your family. Works really weel and is easy.

Jul 20, 10 - 09:49 am Comment from: Murasaki

Ummm, yeah. McAfee. Same company that took everyone out with a bad update a while back. And they want me to install their crapware on a APPLE product?
BAKA!!!

http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/24918/

Likely to cause more problems that it will ever prevent:

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local-beat/McAfee-Glitch-Causes-Computer-Reboot-91806529.html

Jul 20, 10 - 09:55 am Comment from: 84 Mac Guy

News flash: McAfee try selling ice to Eskimos.

Jul 20, 10 - 09:59 am Comment from: ron

Parent - control your kids. No viruses ever on my Macs. I may have got a virus myself (sneeze) a the library, from one of their filthy keyboards.

Jul 20, 10 - 10:11 am Comment from: Uncle Al

The banking regulators MADE us have anti-virus software on all machines, even after we told them we had never had a virus on any of our Macs since 1983. So, if the price is reasonable, it might help some businesses be able to keep using Macs. Regulators have vast power, coupled with minuscule reasoning skills.

Jul 20, 10 - 10:20 am Comment from: neomonkey

"McAfee Internet Security suite helps Apple users confidently live their digital lives,”

Digital lives?? Wow this guy's got a BS in BS.

McAfee Family Protection - helping helicopter parents control their precious snowflakes' existences, because reality is scary!

Jul 20, 10 - 10:43 am Comment from: silverwarloc

NCIceman:

Most likely, I say most likely, from the back end because I too play wow on my mac--without any firewalls or AV. Never had a problem. Been playing WoW since 2004. I think back when it was called Warcraft or something. I got one of those old titles: High Warlord.

Jul 20, 10 - 10:44 am Comment from: El Guapo

I've been buck naked since 1993.

The McAfee back room or skunk works had better come up with some dire threats to Macs otherwise McAfee will not get rich this way.

Lame. Macs don't need that type of protection. Only a good sleeve or bag.

Jul 20, 10 - 11:46 am Comment from: Zeke

All of this and more is already available in OS X. Why would I want to install this crap on my Mac and spend $79 for the inconvenience? My employer does not require AV on a Mac that connects to its system. I don’t permit Windows boxes on my home system. It all works out very well. Ten years on the net with no AV and no problems, ever.

Jul 20, 10 - 12:28 pm Comment from: Metryq

McAfee Internet Security releases new Mac security hole products

Jul 20, 10 - 12:39 pm Comment from: LordRobin

I use my Mac buck naked every day, and I've never gotten a virus.

Wait... when you say "buck naked", you mean "without firewalls". Oh, never mind.

------RM

Began using Macs with OS 6.5 in '88. Never had a virus or know anyone with a Mac that has had a virus.

What I don't understand is why they price the Mac security software at almost double the price of the Windows versions.

Some of those thinking they've never had a virus, actually have, but never noticed. MS Office files have come with various bad things attached which do not affect the Mac, but may affect a PC to whom you send it. And, in the past, they sometimes affected the files themselves. I'm simply saying here that some jump to the conclusion that no sensible virus would ever find refuge in your Mac when you may even now have some hanging around. They're doing nothing. But they're hanging around often in some MS product. I have used Intego products for years. Rarely does it find anything. But it has (MS stuff). I suspect, at some point, there will be more credible threats to the Mac. Even if not, some of us (unnecessarily) want to protect PC people we deal with from being hurt from something we pass on that had no affect on our Mac, but destroys their PC. If these are friends, some of us feel bad about that. Well, perhaps mixed feelings.

Jul 20, 10 - 04:42 pm Comment from: Kit-N

@ Parent,

"None of you have kids, obviously. This is something our family could use."

Three boys. Wide open to the internet since 1995. No viruses. No Trojans. No problems.

Jul 20, 10 - 08:20 pm Comment from: Tommyr

ROTFLMAO! No thanks McAfee! This isn't Winblows.

Now McAffee is trying to join the leeches. The Mac OS is NOT like Windows OS. A virus requires "contact" & "bridging" [thank you for the infamous registry, BG]; none of which exist in MacOS. 'nough said. But go ahead and be influenced by programmer rhetoric as in 1999's "millennium bug" and waste your money on unnecessary McAffee software if you wish; it is after all in McAffee's best financial interest...