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Re:Slow Software by em500 on Thursday November 22, 2018 @04:38AM (#18508955)
> Macs do not allow running unsigned software by default, and no one runs antivirus on Mac, ever.

My company-issued MBP is running something called "Cylance Protect" (and "TrendMicro" earlier). And also something called "Forecpoint DLP". I have no control over any of that, software just appears and disappears. I think it's done by something called "Jamf".

I don't really care either way. The only thing I actually use on the Mac is Chrome for email/calendaring/vidconf and some intranet sites. Actual work is all on Linux servers via ssh (and even that has "ClamAV" antivirus running). So I'm just using it as an expensive terminal/chromebook.

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Re:Slow Software by sahil-kang on Thursday November 22, 2018 @07:41AM (#18509635)
It sounds like we might work together; the only difference is that I do most of my dev work on my MBP so I consider it an expensive Linux machine instead of a chromebook :)
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Re:Slow Software by 52-6F-62 on Thursday November 22, 2018 @10:46AM (#18510618)
Haha I just made another comment to a similar effect. We had McAfee but I stripped it out because it was just so terrible.

We also have the Forcepoint nonsense.

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