Antivirus for mac g5 update#
(I always put on my Mac Exorcist hat when I update this stuff anymore.) The stand-alone iBook updates were uneventfully routine, but a G4 Mac mini I use for network and storage services stalled, rebooted a couple times, and commanded the UPS to shut down the system after a very long screen-off delay.
I just spent about half an hour enjoying Apple Security Update 2009-001 on several of my Macs. The least that you can keep of my words is that you can refrain from updating your system immediately when an update comes out - except if it fixes issues that you’ve encountered on important things, of course - wait to read if people are happy with this update, wait for fixes if the update breaks something (anyone remembers the infamous 10.3.x update bug that erased firewire HDs if they were connected during the update? I personally destroyed all the data of a friend film-maker doing that damned update!!!) Those are just conjectures, and most people might disagree, but I’m a twenty-year-old mac user (since system 7), so I’m talking based on my experience. just like you, I've done all the security updates until the previous one, but I've always wondered if they were really useful: one thing is pretty sure, if I had to reinstall my old systems, I would stick to the lowest well-running version and avoid as much updates as possible, as I've always noticed a drop in performance after applying all the updates of any kind in the life of a system (it looks as Apple would intentionally fatten the system till the average user thinks "ok, Tiger is too slow, Leopard will be better, let’s buy it!" and so on, but of course Apple wouldn't think that way, ain't they? -) my Mini G4 running Tiger is no longer security-updated by Apple since years, neither my G5 running Leopard, do you think I've been attacked in anyway? -D when you take a look at what is fixed, the risks are probably very low for the average home user, while they're higher for big corporate's servers, of course potential security leaks are likely to be exploited until they're not known, so It's very probable that after a few months most of them have not to be feared anymore. I'd like to do a bit of philosophy, here:
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