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Old 05-20-2011, 11:15 AM   #158
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Originally Posted by Stanley Nickels View Post
We're having a whale of a time dealing with less-computer-literate folks installing Mac Defender or Mac Protector. Making things worse, those trojans pop-up gay porn, of all things, then present the user with a virus warning. The worst part about this is trying to explain to someone how the program got there; their admin password HAD to be entered, but they draw no correlation between the installing of an anti-virus and the subsequent porn/virus "infection". Ugh.
Seriously?

First off.... never ever ever give complete idiot users admin rights. That's just asking for headaches.

You could install ClamXAV on the machines. It's free, and effective. It's very easy to use, just tell it what to actively monitor. You can configure it to monitor the User folders, the normal startup and launch folders, etc. if you don't want it to scan the entire drive.
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