can AVG free be downloaded for the latest iMac
Have the Mac with OS X, and am tyring to upgrade to Mountain Lion
It's the Mac Os X
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Have the Mac with OS X, and am tyring to upgrade to Mountain Lion
It's the Mac Os X
OS X versions 10.6.7 and later have built-in detection of known Mac malware in downloaded files. The recognition database is automatically updated once a day; however, you shouldn't rely on it, because the attackers are always at least a day ahead of the defenders. In most cases, there’s no benefit from any other automated protection against malware.
The most effective defense against malware is your own intelligence. All known malware on the Internet that affects a fully-updated installation of OS X 10.6 or later takes the form of trojans, which can only work if the victim is duped into running them. If you're smarter than the malware attacker thinks you are, you won't be duped. That means, primarily, that you never install software from an untrustworthy source. How do you know a source is untrustworthy?
Disable Java (not JavaScript) in your web browser(s). Few websites have Java content nowadays, so you won’t be missing much. This setting is mandatory in OS X 10.5.8 or earlier, because Java in those versions has bugs that make it unsafe to use on the Internet. Those bugs will probably never be fixed, because those older operating systems are no longer being maintained by Apple. Upgrade to a newer version of OS X as soon as you can.
Follow these guidelines, and you’ll be as safe from malware as you can reasonably be.
Never install any commercial "anti-virus" products for the Mac, as they all do more harm than good. If you need to be able to detect Windows malware in your files, use the free software ClamXav — nothing else.
rhondda ferguson wrote:
can AVG free be downloaded for the latest iMac
Only if you are running Windows on your iMac. Several formerly Windows only A-V vendors rushed a product to market back in the spring, but so far AVG seems to only have LinkScanner for Mac which appears to do no more than what is already built into Safari.
I recommend you stay away from these new offerings as they have not proven they fully understand OS X yet and have not been rated as to their effectiveness by anybody yet.
If you insist on installing something, there are several developers who have been supporting the Mac platform for years that are a better solution.
can AVG free be downloaded for the latest iMac