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Virex 7.5 Available to .Mac Members

Virex 7.5 Available to .Mac Members

by , 11:00 AM EDT, August 23rd, 2004

.Mac members can now download version 7.5 of McAfee's anti-virus protection software, Virex.

New features of version 7.5 include real time 'on access' scanning, automatic eUpdate functionality, scheduling options for on-demand scans and updating and the latest McAfee anti-virus scan engine. In addition, McAfee Virex employs generic detection, which involves using a single virus definition to detect and clean many variants of the same virus family.

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Close Name:SWFan Posts: 484 Joined: 23 Jan 2002
Mon Aug 23, 2004 11:46 am Subject:

I haven't downloaded it due to all the MacFixIt reports I was getting when the beta was released. Anyone here tried it yet?

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Close Name:Guest
Mon Aug 23, 2004 11:52 am Subject: Leave it alone for a while

Installed this morning, several services stayed hung and consumed processor time.. In my opinion the Beta worked better. At least they offer an uninstall script which doesnt remove the plists but does a good job of removing everything else.

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Close Name:DeepDish Posts: 57 Joined: 25 Jun 2001
Mon Aug 23, 2004 1:27 pm Subject: it deleted my mail in box

It deleted my mail.app inbox.

I am not happy about this!!!!

Otherwise, it is very much an improvement and I like it a lot.

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Close Name:SWFan Posts: 484 Joined: 23 Jan 2002
Mon Aug 23, 2004 3:04 pm Subject: Re: it deleted my mail in box

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DeepDish wrote:
It deleted my mail.app inbox.

I am not happy about this!!!!

Otherwise, it is very much an improvement and I like it a lot.

This isn't the first time I've heard this happening.

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Close Name:Guest
Mon Aug 23, 2004 4:22 pm Subject: Re: it deleted my mail in box

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DeepDish wrote:
It deleted my mail.app inbox.

I am not happy about this!!!!

Otherwise, it is very much an improvement and I like it a lot.

Upgraded with no problems here.

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Close Name:Alphax Posts: 3182 Joined: 13 Sep 2002
Mon Aug 23, 2004 4:25 pm Subject: No problems so far.

It found 3 things, all in Mail's 'Deleted' folder. No ill effects from running it. Some good interface changes, now I don't have to cut and paste the text report over to a word processor and do a Find to figure out what virus was found. I've not turned on the new scanning features, as they might cause a performance hit on this old G3 iMac.

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Close Name:Dean Lewis Posts: 162 Joined: 29 Sep 2001
Mon Aug 23, 2004 5:29 pm Subject:

I held off downloading the first Virex version due to mentions of slowness and other issues. That and the fact there just are no Mac OS X viruses (proof of concept maybe, but nothing live) and I don't use any Microsoft Office products, made me figure I was fine for the time being.

So, it's a couple years on and I've had no problems, but I'm not naive enough to think this will always be the case. And I do have .Mac, so, should I now take advantage of the Virex download? I've upgraded my processor speed (from 400MHz to 1GHz) and have fast drives installed. What does Virex look for exactly since there are few mac X only viruses? Does it look for PC virusesa s well so you don't pass them on in an email? Does it check fo crossplatform macro viruses?

Any experiences or pointers to reviews of the latest version appreciated!

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