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Sophos for Mac Tiger PPC

I am running Tiger 10.4.11 on both an iMac G4/800 + an iMac G5, 1.9, 17" iSight PPC computer. The feeling in the iMac PPC community is that Sophos + other anti virus software is completely unnecessary for the PPC architecture, that only Intel iMacs are vulnerable to viruses, spyware, malware, worms etc. Is this true? I have been running Sophos for Mac Free Edition since it came out, am very thankful to Sophos for supplying this software especially to us Tiger users. But the question exists, am I protecting my computer against a threat that can never impact my computers? Shall I continue to run Sophos? Thanks, Ken.

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0 Agile over 13 years ago

http://openforum.sophos.com/t5/Sophos-Anti-Virus-for-Mac-Home/Please-Alleviate-My-Malware-Ignorance/m-p/7215
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0 pixturesk over 13 years ago

Thanks Andrew. After checking your link, what I am assuming is that to be ABSOLUTELY SAFE, I ought to continue running Sophos even though most of the threats only affect Intel Macs. Threats will only continue to increase, I gather, even in the PPC architecture. Can you please confirm this for me. Thanks, Ken.
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0 Agile over 13 years ago

That's about the gist of it. It is of course up to you to make the decision; most malware coming out now is targeted at x86 architecture only (as the compilers only target x86 now by default), but that doesn't mean that the old malware has gone away, nor that someone won't write something with a PPC target build using an older version of the xcode developer libraries.
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0 pixturesk over 13 years ago

Thanks Andrew. I will continue to run Sophos, can't be too careful. Please thank the folks at Sophos for this excellent program, especially for us Tiger users. Ken.
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