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bbernardini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-27-04 08:40 AM
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Mac users: What's your favorite alternative to Norton Utilities?
Since it seems that Norton is moving away from Mac development, I'm wondering what tools you all like for system maintenance and virus detection and elimination. Thoughts?
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BigMcLargehuge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-27-04 08:44 AM
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1. it sucks that Norton won't be around for Tiger
I am not sure what to get to replace it.
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Billy Burnett Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-27-04 08:52 AM
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2. Diskwarrior & Tech Tool pro
These are the only utils that work properly on OS 10.x.x and dual boot Macs. Period.
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mrboba1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-27-04 09:10 AM
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3. these 2 are very good.
nothing else is necessary.
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Awsi Dooger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-28-04 09:20 PM
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6. Same
Tech Tool Pro is much sexier, checking and repairing many more things, but some Mac users swear by Disk Warrior's ability to rescue a disk by creating a new, and not rebuilt directory.

I had no idea Norton was bailing on the Mac platform. That was always my favorite utility, especially in the old days with the logo of the fixit guy and neat accompaniments like Speed Disk and Floppier.
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bbernardini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-28-04 09:05 PM
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4. What about for virus protection?
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BlackVelvetElvis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-28-04 09:08 PM
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5. At my school our tech uses Tech Tool Pro.
No issues unlike Nortons.
Doesn't OSX have virus protection built in? I've heard that somewhere.
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bbernardini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-28-04 09:44 PM
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7. They're not totally dropping Mac development...
Just Norton Utilities and Systemworks. They're still doing AntiVirus, Internet Security and Personal Firewall.
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