Yeah, I use KlamAV at home (uses ClamAV in the background, with the GUI
interface being a KDE util, thus the "K" in KlamAV.)

 

John-AldrichTile-Tools

 

From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 12:57 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Mac Anti-Malware

 

Our Mac guru here recommends ClamAV, or actually for the Mac version I think
it's ClamXAV.  Free, open source, certainly worth looking into.  It's what
he uses at home on his personal Macs.  

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Jon Harris <jk.har...@gmail.com> wrote:

Well the user in question has repeatly stated that he does not need AV but
the Univeristy just said make it so (cutting out his argument that he does
not need any).  That said we will not install anything from Symantec after
the last time we used their stuff and had it NOT find viruses.  McAfee may
be an option but not one I was hoping to see.

 

Jon

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:36 PM, John Aldrich <jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com>
wrote:

That's a good question. The most common answer you're going to find is "we
don't need antivirus/anti-malware." For the most part that is true, as OS X
is based on Unix (BSD to be exact, I think.) That being said, there has been
some recently publicized (in this list even, I think J) activity that
warrants looking for anti-malware on the Mac.

My suggestion would be to check the "usual suspects": McAfee, AVG, Symantec
(YUCK!), etc.

I just did a little bit of looking (not much, mind) and the ONLY thing I
found was Avast! has a Mac version. Trend Micro (maker of PC-Cillin and host
of the free on-line virus scanner "antivirus.com <http://antivirus.com/> ")
makes a Mac version of their stuff, so it's available. You just have to look
a lot harder to find it than with Windows anti-malware. J

 

John-AldrichTile-Tools

 

From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 12:21 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Mac Anti-Malware

 

What is a good Mac OS X(?) Anti-Malware software?  I have zero experience
with Mac's and was just instructed to begin looking for some software for
one.  Anyone got a good recommendation they will offer up?

 

Thanks and I am off to see what is out there.

 

Jon Harris

 

 

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05:53:00

 

 

 

 

 




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