

My questions are specific for the best method to setup the application for good performance and limit the resources required. I have done a bit of research and the Uni accepts ClamXav and it appears that it is highly recommended by users here. requires AV software on all computers connecting to their network.


I am attending University in the fall and the IT dept.

What to do about it? Well, there's really nothing you can do - you just have to hope that whoever this person is eventually discovers that they have an infection and either renews their AV subscription or gets a better solution to deal with it.I am new to the forum and fairly new Mac switcher. So, chances are there's an infected computer out there that just happens to belong to a friend of yours that has your email address in their contact list. It will then send its nasty emails out "from" those addresses, often picked at random. As a result, quite often if a computer is infected with a virus that sends emails, it will harvest addresses from the infected PC's contact list or most recently sent to list. Virus writers are keenly aware of this, so they like to use a system that creates lots of confusion. This makes the virus easy to find and remove. if you started getting junk from and you know John, you're probably going to tell him about it so that he can virus scan his machine. So, why are these emails being sent "from" your address? Most viruses are tricky and particularly, viruses that send mail don't like to be caught and easily eradicated! Think about it. For example, if I want to, I can send you an email that appears to come from This phenomena is known as "sender address spoofing" and is quite simple to do. Most people don't realize that an email can be sent "from:" anyone. Most likely you don't have any problem at all.
