cultofmac.com - 12/3/2008
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One day after a number of media outlets (including this one) made hay out of the fact that an Apple Support knowledgebase stated “Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities,” the company removed the page from its support website on Tuesday.
“We ...
support.apple.com - 12/2/2008
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support.apple.com —
Last Modified: November 21, 2008 Article: HT2550 Old
Article: 4454 Summary Learn about antivirus utilities available for
the Mac OS. Products Affected Consumer Software, Mac OS Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so ...
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Mac OS: Antivirus utilities
macworld.com - 12/3/2008
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macworld.com —
by Jim Dalrymple , Macworld.com A support page
on Apple’s Web site recommending users purchase antivirus software
for their Macs received a lot of attention over the past couple of days, but on Tuesday Apple removed the page from its Web site. "We ...
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Apple removes antivirus support page
support.apple.com - 11/26/2008
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support.apple.com —
Last Modified: November 21, 2008 Article: HT2550 Old
Article: 4454 Summary Learn about antivirus utilities available for
the Mac OS. Products Affected Consumer Software, Mac OS Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so ...
(more)
Mac OS: Antivirus utilities
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... Right, what else? Well, having successfully wound the Windows fanbois up to squawking fever pitch by suggesting that Mac users might want to install some anti-virus software, Apple have now gone and disappeared the page in question. Adobe has ...
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Your iPhone takes how long to back up? 8 hours?
9to5mac.com 8/29/2008 — Hard to argue with this video ( thanks ). Yes, there are some problems with iPhone 2.0.x. Even if you have every application in the App store, 8 hours is a long time.
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