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From: Nigel McMillan
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 21:53

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in article O8cve.3726$oJ.1962@news-server.bigpond.net.au, pedro at
pedro@nowhere.com wrote on 25/6/05 10:31 PM:

> 
> Hi. Does anyone know if Norton Utilities V5.0 and Nortons Anti-Virus
> V6.0 will run under system 10? I cant get any help on the Symantec Site
> as they're no longer current versions. Thanks,
>  
>  


It might run but it wont be any use to you.  The latest norton utilities is
ver. 8 and I would not recommend it for any OSX install - Norton Utilities
just doesn't work well with OSX and causes more problems than its worth.
Try Diskwarrior. 

For Anti virus the latest mac version is 10 and as stated previously your
definitions will be out of date.  Personally I haven't run antivirus
software on my Mac for a year now - really no need.  There are 20 000
something PC viruses and 70 or so Mac viruses - all for the OS9 and before
plus flavours of word and excel macro viruses and the like.  Not saying
maces are immune I don't count idiots who install and run unknown programs
or files, they only have themselves to blame (these are not viruses), but it
is inherently more difficult to write a virus of Osx.  However, it will
happened one day no doubt

Nigel

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