Q: What is the best way to protect my new iMac?
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Feb 27, 2013 5:34 PMby AnaMusic,HelpfulIn General 3rd Party AV Software is Not Required as Mac OS X tends to look after itself.
Read Here >
To keep your Mac Happy... See Here...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1147
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/maintainingmacosx.html
Mac OS X: About background maintenance tasks
With regard to Backing Up...
Time Machine vs. Clones and Archives
On one external Hard Drive... Time Machine for Day to Day use and on a seperate External Hard Drive create a Bootable Backup using either SuperDuper or CCC...
SuperDuper http://www.shirt-pocket.com/
or CCC http://www.bombich.com
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by Allan Eckert,HelpfulFeb 27, 2013 5:39 PM
Allan Eckert
Feb 27, 2013 5:39 PM
in response to glennfromgreen bay
Level 9
(53,766 points)
DesktopsDon't get any AV software. All they do is cause problems. They are one of those situations where the cure is worst then the disease.
Don't use Carbonite. It is incapable of returning the databases used by most Apple applications in a usable form.
What ever you do don't even think about MacKeeper.
Backup. Set up a good backup plan and then test it to make sure it works. It is a certainty you will lose data, the only question is when.
Allan
