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But, even after you have fully closed the apps, you'll notice they open much quicker than the first time. If you notice when you first boot your mac everything opens slowly. Your system caches snapshots of apps and whatnot as well as many other things in order to speed things up. So just delete them and move on.Īs for the cleaners such as clean my mac, or ccleaner, they are not really needed and can slow down your system. Because unlike windows, there is no central registry, no system32 folder for dynamic link library files, and programs do not spread their config files in 30 different places.
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Best procedure is to be very careful what you download and install, but if you get something that makes your mac act weird, just delete it. So while it is possible to get virus and malware on the mac, the AV will most likely not know its even there.
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Unfortunately, the malicious code that was in this program i downloaded was most likely a one off and something like that would not be logged in any AV database.
Of course, they may not function very well, because AV programs use a database file that contains strings of known code and its derivatives to scan and search for matches within binaries. But if you like to download and try unsigned applications from unknown developers then and AV may be necessary.
If you do not download applications from the web, then there would be no need for antivirus. While it is very difficult to get a typical virus/malware through some web click like you can on windows, there is nothing stopping a dev from placing arbitrary code in an application that can steal info or disrupt your machine. I deleted the application and promptly changed all of my passwords on every account associated with my mac. When I returned home, I went through the login history on Facebook and found my account had been logged into from somewhere in Virginia multiple times that morning. My spotify login just happens to be through my Facebook account. Finally spotify came back and said that it had stopped playing due to spotify being logged in on a different machine. It wasn't until I was driving around in the car (with my iMac at home turned completely off) that my spotify on my phone kept stopping. In a rather unfortunate twist, I had downloaded and installed a Dj program that allowed me to sync my spotify playlists to it, and use them to mix live. Yet they both run rampant with malware and virii.
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But these same features are also in use in the most part by android and iOS.
Yes the kernel does sandbox memory allocations, and there are things in place that naturally prevent elevated user access to critical files. These other gentlemen are just going by outdated information. Okay, first as a computer programmer, I can tell you that yes, virus and malware are completely possible on the mac. Am now 70 and slowing down a little! But still determined to succeed! PS - I used to work for Apple during the 80s and helped create Apple (Canada) Inc. It finds all Windows viruses with any difficulty and will remove or quarantine them easily.
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this morning, I dug out an Avast! file that I had downloaded a couple of months ago and used that with smooth installation for my client in the center of Moscow, where I live! It is up and running - smooth as silk.Īs it happens, there are a couple of malware files that have intruded the Mac OS X environment and they disrupt the system and how it deals with "housekeeping." Also, here in Russia, using Russian (Cyrillic language) as well as running Parallels with Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 on this Mac and needing these systems always up and running, requires the presence of an AV program. Once having realised what was happening, at 2:30 a.m. I found out that the repeatedly downloading file was a measly 6MB file and was not labelled correctly by the host! I needed the "full" download of about 90+ MB! My reply is not just for you, Barry, but also for the others who took the time to read and reply to my forlorn wailing for assistance! Thank you for your collective input.
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