[ale] AV software? Slightly OT

[jdp at algoloma.com (JD)]

On 05/18/2011 05:25 PM, Drifter wrote:
> My wife's MacBook suffered an unrecoverable hard drive crash last week.
> Fortunately, hard copies existed for all the critical material she had
> created since the last backup, so the loss was mostly a major nuisance
> rather than a major disaster. :)
> 
> It was Emory's computer, and it died right after graduation. Go figure.
> 
> So she bought a new one (without all the cruft Emory insists on installing).
> 
> Slashdot notes today the increase in malware aimed directly at OS X and
> that causes me to wonder what sort of anti-virus software should be
> installed on this laptop. (small MacBook Pro) Obviously it needs to be
> something that a non-geek is going to be able to use.
> 
> Suggestions would be appreciated.

Perhaps this would be a good time to get "backup religion"?
* Automatic
* Incremental (I prefer reverse-incremental)
* Verified