This subject has recently come up on a couple of lists and the one thing that's made me get hold of ClamXAV is the fact that I sometimes use a USB memory stick to transfer documents and audio to colleagues with Windows machines. Recently, I handed the stick to a technician in a museum where I was giving a lecture using PowerPoint and on his inserting into the museum's Windows machine, the virus protection on that machine went ape-sh*t. Turns out that I'd been collecting a whole bunch of Windows-type viruses, malware, trojans and other junk from other people's Windows machines and then probably passing them on unwittingly to others.
So if you're like me and are sociable with your stick, so to speak, then it makes sense to use protection.
Regards,
John
On 31 Aug 2010, at 16:28, Edward Thorpe wrote:
> If you are concerned about you're Mac, nothing. If you are concerned
> about propagating things to you're Windows friends you might try
> ClamXAV.
