You'll find the apple website helpful. It has practical information for people switching from windows: http://www.apple.com/uk/why-mac/faq/

Just to add, Thunderbird the Mozilla mail client is available in a Mac version. Postbox is a commercial variant based on Thunderbird and seems to get good reviews. Priced at $30-$50, so not particularly cheap.

As others have said there is no need to install anti-virus provided you are sensible, but if you really must have it, the free Sophos version appears to be very useable and AFAICT doesn't produce any problems. I've had it running for some 3 months without any bother and, in that time it has found absolutely nothing.

Before anyone says, having AV installed is a condition of being able to access my work VPN.

In reply to a post by Tacitus:

As others have said there is no need to install anti-virus provided you are sensible, but if you really must have it, the free Sophos version appears to be very useable and AFAICT doesn't produce any problems. I've had it running for some 3 months without any bother and, in that time it has found absolutely nothing.

Doen't prove that AVs are unnecessary, just that you have been careful . Likewise; have had Norton AV on Windows for 8 years and it's never found anything

I have had a nac since 1995 and never seen a virus, I work with both macs and pc's and never seen a mac virus. PC's on the other hand even in large corporates with firewalls and AV it is a regular occurance

In reply to a post by captainmouse:

I have had a nac since 1995 and never seen a virus,

You have had a nack for what exactly???




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