To add to what Joel and Ged have said, the easiest way to install ClamAV on macOS is to use Homebrew (https://brew.sh/) and just run "brew install clamav".
It is probably worth mentioning - ClamAV requires manual configuration to work. The most common use case for ClamAV is to filter files and emails sent or uploaded to email and web servers. ClamAV doesn't have easy setup for use as an endpoint security suite like a traditional anti-virus product. But if you want to use ClamAV as an anti-virus product on your computer you'll have to find way to perform scans and you'll have to figure out what to do if the scan find something. Automatically removing or even moving files that are already on your computer is generally discouraged. You'll have to investigate to determine if you think the file in question is really malware or if it's false alert (false positive) before your remove the file or ignore the alert. Regards, Micah > -----Original Message----- > From: clamav-devel <clamav-devel-boun...@lists.clamav.net> On Behalf Of > G.W. Haywood > Sent: Saturday, January 2, 2021 7:52 AM > To: clamav-devel@lists.clamav.net > Subject: Re: [Clamav-devel] making ClamAV available to macOS users through > the Apple App Store > > Hi there, > > On Sat, 2 Jan 2021, Finn isme wrote: > > > I am an ordinary user of macOS who has dabbled with Linux in the past. > > I wonder if your organization would be willing to make ClamAV and a > > ClamAV frontend available on the macOS store. For awhile now, Apple > > has a no-fee policy for non-profits as shown here: > > https://developer.apple.com/support/membership-fee-waiver/ > > I'm not sure that Cisco, with just shy of 76,000 employees and a net annual > income of over ten billion dollars, qualifies as a 'non-profit': > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_Systems > > > I would prefer to have some antivirus solution on macOS, however all > > those available on the Apple App Store seem to have negative reviews > > concerning how they disrupted the macOS system. > > As Joel says, you can indeed install ClamAV on a Mac. If you search the list > archives you will find many posts from Mac users. Some are very recent. It's > not perfectly straightforward to install, but then security isn't perfectly > straightforward. If you are unable to follow the installation instructions at > > https://www.clamav.net/documents/installation-on-macos-mac-os-x > > then you can always ask for help on the ClamAV users list (not on this list, > which as you know is for development). > > Do not, however, assume that if you install ClamAV then you are as if by magic > somehow "protected". That's a long way from being the case. > Your best protections are to keep on top of security updates, (both the Mac > system and any installed software), to be sensible about what software you > install on your computer, about what you browse, and how you deal with > email. Note that many software offerings which claim to offer 'protection' of > some kind are simply malicious software, thinly disguised as something that > you would want on your computer. Perhaps even most of them. I would > never install an 'app' from any store, on anything, no matter what its > promoters promised to provide. The first thing I did when I got a smartphone > was remove all the apps that came with it, including the browser. It now has > exactly two apps on it. I built them myself. It's never been compromised, > nor > has anything on our network. > > Take great care with email. At the moment I'm getting a more than thousand > malicious messages per month from 'protection.outlook.com' - Microsoft's > own email service. The messages mostly come from servers in Austria, Eire, > Finland, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and the USA but I do see a few from > elsewhere. Google's email service used to lead my league table of cr@p > email suppliers, now they're second to Microsoft. > > If you feel it's essential to accept some level of risk, you could for example > intall a virtual machine package on the Mac, and use a browser running on the > VM instead of the one running native on your Mac. Even a VM doesn't totally > remove the risks, so it's just a suggestion, not a recommendation. Don't > forget > that you can configure your browser to reject a lot of junk like javascript > code > from untrusted sources, but, even more important, don't forget that nothing > can be trusted. > > > postscript - I'm not sure if I will be able to read your replies and > > I'm emailing from a Comcast email account. > > You should have no trouble getting replies from the list email server but > please don't attempt to reply to me personally, as my list address only > accepts > mail from the list server and in any case my servers will reject all > connection > attempts from Comcast IPs. > > -- > > 73, > Ged. > _______________________________________________ > > clamav-devel mailing list > clamav-devel@lists.clamav.net > https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-devel > > Please submit your patches to our Github: https://github.com/Cisco- > Talos/clamav-devel/pulls > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml _______________________________________________ clamav-devel mailing list clamav-devel@lists.clamav.net https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-devel Please submit your patches to our Github: https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav-devel/pulls Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
