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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1691132" data-attributes="member: 190607"><p>Now that ClamXav is a commercial product, I don't recommend it anymore. ClamXav was a worthwhile product when it was free, but as a commercial product if falls quite a bit short of the features of the better Anti-Virus (AV) products. If you feel that you need an anti-virus product, and you are willing to pay for one, you might as well get the best one on the market. Going by all of the reviews that one can respect, and my personal experience, that's Intego's VirusBarrier. You can get it for only $40.</p><p><a href="http://www.intego.com/antivirus-internet-security-x8" target="_blank">http://www.intego.com/antivirus-internet-security-x8</a></p><p></p><p>Note that VirusBarrier, to my knowledge, like just about all of the other anti-virus products for the Macintosh, does not look for adware. For that you should use the free product:</p><p></p><p>Malware Bytes/Mac (free)</p><p><a href="https://www.malwarebytes.org/antimalware/mac/" target="_blank">https://www.malwarebytes.org/antimalware/mac/</a></p><p>which does an excellent job with adware, but I have my doubts about for any other sort of malware.</p><p></p><p>And to answer the inevitable question: "Do we <strong>need</strong> anti-virus software for our Macs?" At this time, no, you probably don't.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1691132, member: 190607"] Now that ClamXav is a commercial product, I don't recommend it anymore. ClamXav was a worthwhile product when it was free, but as a commercial product if falls quite a bit short of the features of the better Anti-Virus (AV) products. If you feel that you need an anti-virus product, and you are willing to pay for one, you might as well get the best one on the market. Going by all of the reviews that one can respect, and my personal experience, that's Intego's VirusBarrier. You can get it for only $40. [url]http://www.intego.com/antivirus-internet-security-x8[/url] Note that VirusBarrier, to my knowledge, like just about all of the other anti-virus products for the Macintosh, does not look for adware. For that you should use the free product: Malware Bytes/Mac (free) [url]https://www.malwarebytes.org/antimalware/mac/[/url] which does an excellent job with adware, but I have my doubts about for any other sort of malware. And to answer the inevitable question: "Do we [B]need[/B] anti-virus software for our Macs?" At this time, no, you probably don't. [/QUOTE]
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