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Author:  big_D [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 2:37 pm ]
Post subject:  AV package
What is the best free / cheap AV package for OS X these days?
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 2:42 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: AV package
VLC Media Player is probably the best playback program, and free.
Author:  steve74 [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 2:46 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: AV package
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
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 3:00 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: AV package
steve74 wrote:
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

Oops forgot that AV could mean anti virus. :oops:

Yes I use Clam X AV. Nothing wrong with it.
Author:  JJW009 [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 3:01 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: AV package
steve74 wrote:
most people seem to recommend the free ClamX AV

Really? The Windows version is terrifyingly old fashioned!
Author:  forquare1 [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 4:12 pm ]
Post subject:  AV package
JJW009 wrote:
steve74 wrote:
most people seem to recommend the free ClamX AV

Really? The Windows version is terrifyingly old fashioned!


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...
Author:  JJW009 [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 5:08 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: AV package
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.
Author:  forquare1 [ Wed Mar 20, 2013 7:21 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: AV package
JJW009 wrote:
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.


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....
Author:  paulzolo [ Thu Mar 21, 2013 3:01 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: AV package
forquare1 wrote:
JJW009 wrote:
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.


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....


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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