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Re: Switching to Security Essentials

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lyons, Andrew H)
Wed Mar 28 09:56:57 2012

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Date:         Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:33:15 +0000
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We do the same as Rogier noted. I strongly agree that, for any system, antivirus software is almost as important as regular OS/browser/plugin updates, so we also suggest visiting http://www.mozilla.org/plugincheck/ on occasion.

Andrew Lyons, IT Support Specialist
ITS Client Support Services
University at Albany

-----Original Message-----
From: Resnet Forum [mailto:RESNET-L@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Rogier Krieger
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 5:36 PM
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Subject: Re: Switching to Security Essentials

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 23:00, Bruce Eisenhard <bae2@lehigh.edu> wrote:
> For those schools who did switch to Security Essentials I was 
> wondering what kind of recommendations do you give to your Mac users?

Sophos is free for use on private Mac devices. Though arguably having users regularly update Java/Flash is going to keep them safer.

http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-antivirus-for-mac-home-edition.aspx


Regards,

Rogier

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