While it says I have no viruses there are like 5 warnings. Should i let the program remove the files, can it be trusted? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Inasmuch as there are no presently known viruses affecting OS X I'd think you could uninstall that anti-virus software.
What it is reporting will either be a Windows problem or a file whose content is unknown such as an unusal .plist preference file.
If there are PC's on your network and they come across the file and it really is a PC threat, they will be infected. Your Mac is at no risk unless you use Bootcamp. A lot of times its from flash or java, so its probably in the cache, If the files origin is in /Username/Library/Caches its usually safe to delete.
The antivirus is pretty much a necessity if you run Bootcamp, or your at risk of the virus corrupting the hard drive, and sometimes even the graphics card, which can not be replaced on a MacBook Pro.
Thank you for the reply. Below are the files that it is giving me warnings about do these mean anything to you?
Python.Framework
testtar.tar archive is corrupted
testtar.tar archive is corrupted
testtar.tar archive is corrupted
testtar.tar archive is corrupted
30atime= 1041808783.000000000 archive is corrupted
MediaKit.Framework
bootroot.loader.dmg 42110 the file is a decompression bomb
Sorry, but an OS X anti-virus program can't run in a Windows partition, so it's useless. While booted into Windows you are only affected by Windows problems because OS X is not even functioning.
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Sophos Antivirus scans Bootcamp all the time, maybe its because I have NTFS-3G installed?
I am not running a windows partition on my Mac.
Yep, I know but gatortribe apparently does not.
Those are files archives for Unix Python that the anti-virus program doesn't recognize so it marks them suspicious. Ignore the warnings and leave the files alone.
Thank you Kappy! That is the level of answer i need lol being newer to mac i need people to just give me the simple answer, dont do that or leave that alone! So I just installed and tried to use uttorent on my mac that was the only reason that I decided to put a virus test on the machine... should i keep the virus software or just rid myself of it since it seems to induce me into a panic?
I know. I was just saying that if you were, you would need it.
I'd get rid of it. If you need to check for viruses anytime then just download the Open Source freeware, ClamXAV.
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I just ran a Virus scan using avast for Mac.
