(newbie) install/configuration question

[Alex Neuman]

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&q=macos+x+worm

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>> b> with the exception of 2 people, everyone in my office is on a Mac,
>> and all our servers are Linux. The .pif files are actually just an 
>> annoyance, not a threat. The 2 Windows machines are running local 
>> copies of NAV.
>
> You'd rather site and wait to see the first bad things happen ? Linux 
> worms also exist, so do Macintosch ones.

For the record, I'm not aware of a single reported Mac OS X worm. Feel free
to name one if I'm wrong.

That said, running ClamAV is probably a good idea, just to be on the safe
side. We run it here, even though all our clients are on OS X.