Well, I finally did it!...oh yeah, I do have a question!?

After years of pc _ell! I made the switch. 4 times!!!!. First, I sent my oldest daughter of to school with an iBook G4, then my son a Mac mini, then my youngest daughter a Macbook and today I ordered a loaded iMac for Mom and Dad. In the brief time it took me to set up and explore these Mac's I realized that they are far superior to any windows product I've had in the past! Will they be perfect? I doubt it. Will they be much better? I think so!!!! I will still have my Firewall on, I will still run the Norton AV for Mac (Sorry if I offend anyone here!) So, one question, besides ilife '06, is there a program that can help me sort and organize a zillion pictures? Thanks, Bill

I switched to Mac in early 2002. On those days just coming from windows and having an always-on broadband connection for the first time I felt I needed something to protect me so I used Virex (free with .Mac suite back then). This feeling of needing extra protection soon faded away and I stopped wasting time searching for non-existent viruses.
I have never had a problem and I have tempted fate plenty of times by downloading dodgy software or browsing even dodgier websites most PC users would not dare to open.
Over these years I kept reading in PC magazines that this was about to change, that viruses for OSX were just around the corner. Well so far their predictions have not been materialised.
The reality is that the best protection you can have is to just browse a couple of Mac news sites daily. If something was to come up chances are that you will read about it on these sites and learn how to protect yourself well before you come across the offender on the net.
If you still feel that you want to experience the above by yourself I would recommend you to use ClamXav which is free. Over the years there have been so many horror stories about Norton products on OSX that if I were you I would be much more concerned about Norton messing up my system than a hypothetical virus.

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