Best Anti-Virus for Mac ?
Ultimate Best Anti-Virus for Mac is ?
Ultimate Best Anti-Virus for Mac is ?
To detect trojan !!
You dont need anti virus for mac. Mac is based on Unix OS meaning its a very old OS that rarley gets Viruses. The antivirus in my opnion causes more damange then good.
Trojans don't need to be detected. Just don't install them in the first place.
In general, you don't need any. OS X does a very good job protecting itself. The rest is the user using their brains and avoiding illegal file web sites; NOT opening every email attachment you get without wondering why you got it in the first place; NOT giving the OS your admin password when it pops up to install something you didn't even inititate, etc.
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OS X now has built-in trojan detection that Apple can update whenever a new one appears. All the other major anti-virus products for the Mac are troublesome at best, often causing major slowdowns of the computer, web browsing, etc. There are no malwares out there that can infect your computer without you doing to something to allow it, either by clicking on a link or visitng a website you shouldn't be visiting in the first place. In other words, the most dangerous security flaw on any computer these days is the person sitting in front of it.
Be that as it may a lot of people swear by ClamXav, a free (donation asked for) virus scanner. I use it myself and it doesn't slow down or tax the computer very much if at all.
If you suspect trouble with your Mac, please describe the symptoms in as much detail as possible, and include a description of the Mac you are using. EtreCheck can help with that. Please read about it first.
Do not seek an "anti-virus" solution for nonspecific problems. Doing so is almost certain to exacerbate whatever troubles you may be experiencing, generally starting you down a well-worn path to misery.
I dont have any symptoms.
Im just working in a sensible domain....
So Anti virus or not ? Sophos or ClamXav or avast ? cybersecurity ? kaspersky ? bitdefender ? norton ? intego ?
If you brain is up to date, it will perform better on new threats than any of the software packages you mentioned.
So Anti virus or not ? Sophos or ClamXav or avast ? cybersecurity ? kaspersky ? bitdefender ? norton ? intego ?
See my Mac Malware Guide. Many of those that you mention aren't much good, for widely varying reasons.
If you choose to use anti-virus software, Sophos is good, but has a chance of causing performance or stability problems. Less so than most similar programs, but it's still possible. ClamXav doesn't detect quite as well as Sophos (or, it didn't last time I tested it, but it's been improving steadily lately) but won't cause you any problems at all.
It's important to understand, though, that anti-virus software cannot protect someone who engages in risky online behavior.
ophos is good, but has a chance of causing performance or stability problems. you say ?
Even if i open it once a week for a detextion and close it right after ? What do you mean about stability problems ? I risk what ?
Sophos is not a program you would use once a week. It's active in the background all the time. You can disable that, but if that's not what you want in the first place, go for something like ClamXav.
Also, note that you should not be running full hard drive scans once per week. That's a serious waste of resources and a pretty ineffective waste of time. If you are going to bother with anti-virus software in the first place - the utility of which is debatable - you either need to have full-time on-access scanning or you need to manually scan every incoming file before opening it. If are not being appropriately cautious with the entry points, and you did happen to get infected with some rare malware, a once-per-week scan will only catch it after the fact, at which point (depending on the malware) your only option may be to erase your hard drive and start fresh.
How long ago was it that you switched from Windows?
skanner21 wrote:
I dont have any symptoms.
Im just working in a sensible domain....
So Anti virus or not ?
You are making the common assumption that OS X requires additional products from third party companies to protect it from viruses and malware. Apple does not sell Macs with such a need. Installing products from companied that claim specialized knowledge of a Mac's operating system, even greater than that of Apple's own designers, is a questionable need, if not a downright ridiculous one. "Sensible" is not a characterization I would use for such an action. It's irresponsible. Ill-conceived "anti-virus" utilities are directly responsible for the overwhelming majority of Mac-related problems reported on this site.
I personally tested most of those examples on a brand new Mac containing nothing other than one minimally configured User account and found them to range from benign but worthless, to causing the brand new Mac to become so unresponsive that it was practically unusable. The performance effects were quantifiably measured using popular benchmarking software, subjective observation of their intrusiveness, and effectiveness of their uninstallation utilities and instructions.
A much better question is "how should I protect my Mac":
Summary: Use common sense and caution when you use your Mac, just like you would in any social context. There is no product, utility, or magic talisman that can protect you from all the evils of mankind.
Hello John,
I've just looked into the subject anti-virus and found your reply to skanner21..
All the things you said in that excellent answer tally with what I do (or rather don't do) and yet I get frequent system crashes, irrespective of browser (currently I'm using Firefox). The only outside sites we visit are British news papers (Guardian, Independent, New Statesman) Facebook, occasionally the German radio and TV pages and almost daily the German weather radar. All respectable sites one would hope. 🙂
Perhaps, as you suggested, I should check the browser extensions...
Thanks for some good advice,
GeTe
Please download and install EtreCheck from http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck
Run it and post the report here.
Hello, I have this already installed, but to be honest I didn't think Etre sorted problems like this... but I'll run it and copy the results to you 🙂
Why don't you post the EtreCheck report and let us decide on that?
Best Anti-Virus for Mac ?