Anti-Virus on PowerPC Mac?

Anti-Virus

Every computer needs to be safe right? But your in a special position you have a PPC Mac, which is pretty old. Not to say it can't get viruses buttttttttttttttttt

Most viruses are caught from web surfing now. And more than 50% is coded for Windows, and a good percent is in Flash and Java. 2 things that your PowerPC Mac already has blocked / can't run.

 [ See how to do so Here ]

Your PPC Mac needs all the power it can get, and Anti-Virus programs do take away from some of the power. If I were you I wouldn't install an anti-virus on my PPC Mac. Especially one with 1gb of Ram. 

There's not a huge market for infected PPC Macs so I wouldn't worry, unless your doing some bad stuff in which case you should get caught :p

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Getting Full Performance out of your PPC Mac

Put the Power setting on : Better Performance

This will make it so your Mac will speed up fans before slowing down the processor, and this shouldn't cause a huge increase in fan noise. If it does I would recommend downloading a fan controller like this: 

G4FanControl $8

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