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Meeting Report: 13th November 2009

Following our new meeting format we kicked off with a discussion of this month’s Apple related news which concentrated on the new Magic Mouse which a couple of SEAL members had purchased. Robert demonstrated the Alpha version of Google’s Chrome browser which has recently become available.

This month’s workshop session was very busy. Several members helped Alan organise backup on his eMac with two external hard drives. Nigel assisted Graham with his Mac Classic II which had developed a hard drive problem. Nigel was able to get the hard drive working and retrieve Graham’s data.

Nigel gave this month’s presentation which was an introduction to Mac security. He covered some of the security features built into Mac OS X and discussed whether virus protection is a necessity. The general concensus was that it is not required with the very limited number of threats “in the wild”. However antivirus can be useful if you commonly share files with PC users and want to avoid spreading in infected file, for this Nigel recommended the open source ClamXAV. Apple have a section on their site dedicated to Mac security.

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