{"id":196,"date":"2008-12-04T23:24:14","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T05:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/?p=196"},"modified":"2008-12-04T23:24:14","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T05:24:14","slug":"antivirus-new-symantec-mac-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/04\/antivirus-new-symantec-mac-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Antivirus: New Symantec Mac forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though Office 2008 doesn&#8217;t support VBA at this time (which should change in the next version of Office), you can still receive infected Word, Excel or PPT documents. They won&#8217;t infect your Mac, but you can still pass them along to collaborators and friends who might be on a Windows machine.<br \/>\nRegardless, it&#8217;s good practice to use and Antivirus.<br \/>\nSymantec has been on the market for virtually ever and also provides Internet security (read firewall, etc) software. Ages ago, they had a fairly active MacFixIt-based forum. When they decided to move away from this solution, the forums (and support) got more or less diluted in the general Symantec resources.<br \/>\nUp to recently, support for the Mac software was in the \u201cOther software\u201d section of the Symantec forums, lost amongst other questions for less popular software.<br \/>\nWell this is over now, Tony Weiss at Symantec just pointed out to me that there is a n<a href=\"http:\/\/community.norton.com\/norton\/board?board.id=norton_mac\">ew Mac section in the Symantec forums<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nThis means a few things to me:<br \/>\n1) Mac question will be easier to pick for the Symantec folks (Mike Romo, who was ruling over the MFI forums is still there actually)<br \/>\n2) Finding previously posted questions will be significantly easier<br \/>\n3) Well, could it be a sign of the consistently increasing Mac marketshare?? More Mac, means more customers, which means more attention from companies like Symantec. More sweethearts might also mean more customers who already have the \u201cantivirus reflex\u201d and might already know Symantec.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, as far as I am concerned, it&#8217;s all good for us.<\/p>\n<p>Now the next step would be localized groups :-><br \/>\nSince at this point the groups are in English only, I won&#8217;t even bother to translate this post :-\\<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Weiss at Symantec just pointed out to me that there is a n<a href=\"http:\/\/community.norton.com\/norton\/board?board.id=norton_mac\">ew Mac section in the Symantec forums<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,14,13],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-antivirus","tag-forum","tag-symantec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}