Osx & Virus Protection??? Options

[don says mac]

Just wondering who all uses 3rd party virus protection software... the two years i've have my mac i have had no protection and no viruses... am i just being naive? my only line of protection is having two hardrives: one as my boot/application drive and the other for all my music...

just looking to see what other people have...

.d.

[iShawn]

One of the reasons why I decided to switch to Mac was because of the less-stressful virus, spyware, and trojan threat (Yes, being a musician when P2P came out I started using it. I was stupid. I decided to educate myself and do a project on it, and since then I haven't downloaded anything, therefore a virus, trojan, and spyware threat doesn't seem too great however I'll need Office for college projects and writing). I understand with time they might come along as more and more people are susceptable to it...but with a firewall and maybe some backup software (What do you recommend? I've heard great things about DiskWarrior) I am getting my 15" PB 1.5GHz 128MB Video RAM, maybe around 1.5GB RAM (Thinking of going the dealram.com route) with the faster 80GB harddrive (5400RPM) via Apple for the Christmas before college. But I'm thinking I'll need something extrernal to record to. Anyone have any experience with a great product for that?

I figure that's very optimized for the recording I'll be doing, and something that won't need constant upgrades for a while (at least during college). I also do some web design. But that wouldn't require much for it works on my laden-PC so I figure getting Studio MX for Mac won't be a problem.

I came here for the less problems I have had. I've had to completely reinstall Windows once and I've had to reinstall a few drivers as well (and drives for that matter) and I really don't want to do that...so I go with Mac and some of the back up software.

I read an article pertaining to the PB and getting max tracks out of it...I won't need hardly a fraction of those tracks but it is interesting. Can you configure which languages to install and stuff to provide more disk space and power even if you just got the PB? (I know when you reinstall Windows from the Windows disk you get the same thing, but I was wondering if I could do some of that article's tips without reinstalling Panther). On the subject of deletion. Is it harder to delete stuff in Mac? Or is it once you delete it from the harddrive that's it? Is there a Control Panel sort of thing for adding and removing programs/hardware? It seems like this is the stuff I really need to know.

But I was told by many accounts at AppleInsider.com NOT to use Norton anything. They said it's harder than Hades to uninstall it and it's worth all the CPU usage. Is this true? Is there an alternative. I've used Windows since I was raised on them (I am 17) in school, and not having antivirus at the least seems quite taboo!

P.S. Good News, since about a month ago I have all of my music on my Hard Drive and data CDs and buy music via iTunes. I love iTunes. Maybe I'll look into getting an iPod sometime. BTW: Can I burn copies of my DVDs to take to college if it comes with the DVD burner? (superdrive)