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big_D
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What is the best free / cheap AV package for OS X these days?
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Amnesia10
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VLC Media Player is probably the best playback program, and free.
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steve74
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Or do you mean Anti- Virus? Sophos do a free one for Macs... http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/fr ... ition.aspx...though I haven't used it - most people seem to recommend the free ClamX AV
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Amnesia10
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Oops forgot that AV could mean anti virus.  Yes I use Clam X AV. Nothing wrong with it. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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JJW009
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Really? The Windows version is terrifyingly old fashioned! _________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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forquare1
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How so? I use ClamX AV on my macs. I do have a cron job to run extra updates, and I guess cron is a few decades old now...
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JJW009
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The interface would be more at home on Windows 3.11 which is probably the last time they updated it. The file picker looks exactly like the one from VB 3.0
It also consistently performs amongst the worst in testing.
I've only ever used it on Windows though. I have it on a W2K server because it's about the only AV that supports it! The X port may be completely different.
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forquare1
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It looks half decent, but then it's been "Macified". Activity Monitor is reporting that ClamXav Sentry is using around 0.2 of 8 cores (4 physical, 4ht) and around 20mb RAM. As for how well it catches viruses, it may not do very well as I've never had it flag anything up. Though I may have genuinely never come across nasties....
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paulzolo
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I use it here. It flags up viruses in emails, but that’s about it. I tried the Sophos free app, and it made my system so horribly unstable, I had to uninstall it.
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