I still feel a little exhilaration each time I remember doing so.
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Who on earth could afford to provide such services free of charge to the end user? The fact that they don’t declare their business models frankly only confirms that, if people really understood what they’re up to, many more would do as I did several years ago, and close their Facebook account. Google, Facebook and other social media are of course businesses which are built on this trade.
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Apple and others are trying to catch up with those who have been abusing our trust to make money from our data. In both cases, recent advances in privacy protection have followed years of neglect. Privacy protection is mainly aimed at two areas: online extraction when we’re accessing Google’s services and social media like Facebook, and the apps which we run on our Macs and devices. Now I do the same using their iOS app, well away from any risk of catching Covid-19, but trusting everything on that iPhone to respect the privacy of that transaction. Gone are the days when I used to drop into my local bank and ask one of the staff – most of whom knew me – to transfer some money from one account to another. In a world where physical banks are vanishing, and writing cheques strongly discouraged, we have no option. I think this is genuine, and that anyone who uses their computer(s) and devices to store sensitive information has to take privacy seriously. So why have we become so concerned about protecting our privacy? Is this just a marketing feature, or a spurious alarm raised by those selling digital snake-oil? Without a single dialog or prompt about accessing protected files. A few minutes of Spotlight search, courtesy of HoudahSpot, and I was able to quote chapter, verse and year to answer a question from a former colleague. Only last night I needed to huck out some information from old files, going right back to the early 1990s.
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That made me consider why privacy is now more important than access. I looked back a little last week, in a throwaway line: fifteen years ago, in 2006, when Spotlight arrived on our Macs “we were all more concerned with finding our documents than preventing others from reading their contents”. Looking back may not seem an Apple thing, but it’s a great advantage to be a Janus. Sentry preferences - what specific directories should be monitored or do you configure the complete HD?Įxcluded files - I have a lot of music and photo files can these files extensions be excluded or is there a risk of not scanning these? Does it help with performance and scan duration.I’m no interior designer, and have a lifelong hatred for open-plan offices anyway, but there’s one feature that I’m sure Apple’s headquarters still needs: at each level, at least one working Mac from each five year period since 1984.
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In my PC days I always ran AV from the big boys and never changed the default settings so I am a bit confused as to best set up the ClamXav application.Īutomatic scanning - should the settings be configured to scan the complete hard drive periodically or can you limit the scan to certain directories without risk?
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My questions are specific for the best method to setup the application for good performance and limit the resources required. I have done a bit of research and the Uni accepts ClamXav and it appears that it is highly recommended by users here.
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requires AV software on all computers connecting to their network. I am attending University in the fall and the IT dept. I am new to the forum and fairly new Mac switcher.