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Monday, November 22, 2004
ClamAV--free virus scanner for OS X (and other OS's)

Thanks to Greg Pierce, I have found my new virus scanner. It's an open-source project called ClamAV that runs on many platforms, but has been given an OS X front-end by Mark Allan in clamXav. It's well suited to checking e-mail attachments and web downloads which, although posing no threat to OS X users, can infect non-OS X users we pass the files on to (assuming you've turned Microsoft's Office macro support off). Though Mark's port if free, he does encourage contributions.

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Categories: MacOS X, Software
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It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well. --Publilius Syrus


Sunday, November 21, 2004
Virex 7.5 = useless

From the readme file for Virex 7.5.1:

Features Excluded From This Release

Scan Contents of Mailboxes -- This Preferences feature of Virex 7.5.0 has been removed from Virex 7.5.1. This product is not meant to be utilized for scanning mails and mailboxes.

So, in other words, if you want antivirus protection to help keep you from passing e-mail viruses on to your pc-using friends, Virex 7.5.1 is completely useless. I guess I'm in the market for a new anti-virus program...

Categories: MacOS X, Software
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. --Socrates


Saturday, November 20, 2004
Be A Firemonger

Firemonger:

"After some initial problems, the Firemonger project is now finally ready. The goal of the project is to create CD images which contain Firefox and which users can download, burn and give away to friends and family. The first CD is now available and includes Firefox, Thunderbird and various plugins, extensions and themes."

[Via rakaz]

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Uninterrupted iTunes Music Store Playback

My great software find for the day is the iTunes Music Store Player. It's especially useful with user-contributed iMixes. For example, I just discovered The Samples (think 'Police'). One user has contributed an iMix called 'The Samples Collection.' Once I have the iMix page in iTunes, I can listen to each 30 second clip without having to go back to iTunes to select the next track--iTunes Music Store Player advances iTunes to the next track automatically.

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You should not live one way in private, another in public. --Publilius Syrus