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Virex 7.2 Hazardous to Fink's Health

Posted by pudge on from the danger-will-robinson dept.

Gorgonzola writes "It was reported that Virex 7.2 and Fink were conflicting, it turned out that Virex 7.2 was overwriting libraries in Fink's default directory, thus hosing Fink for those who had it installed, and preventing Fink from installing for future users. Also, one user pointed out that of Virux's included packages, several (CURL, OpenSSL, and DLCompat) had license terms that Virex was ignoring." It is strongly recommended you don't install Virex 7.2 until this issue is resolved.

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  1. Re:Viruses on OSX by dr00g911 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Someone asked me the other day what was the best virus protection tool for MacOS X as they were planning an upgrade.

    I scratched my head for a minute, did some checking on Symantic & McAfee's sites and realized that the Mac platform (OS X & 9 both included) hasn't seen a virus since 1997 -- the last of those autostart beasties (which still occasionally pop up on service bureau Zips).

    The relative lack of critters, and just basic common sense keep virii off my Macs.

    My Wintel boxes, however, have to live with the 20% system overhead bloat that is Norton Antivirus, coupled with Spybot S&D running at launch.