installing avast on mac osx
I am trying to install avast on my imac. When I click on download, a site comes up that is called clean my mac. Has anybody installed avast, the free version? If so how do you go about it?
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I am trying to install avast on my imac. When I click on download, a site comes up that is called clean my mac. Has anybody installed avast, the free version? If so how do you go about it?
Don't install Avast on your mac because these free antivirus programs are designed to distrupt your mac.İ was installed Avast 2 months ago and last week my mac is malfunctioned but i was fixed my mac.İ'm not advise the free antiviruses for mac that is free.
Before attempting to install that, and be aware there are a lot of negative views about it, go to Thomas Reeds site and read his thoughts on protecting your iMac: http://www.thesafemac.com Tom is a major contributor on here in the area of viruses, etc., and gives great advice.
annfromnew bern wrote:
I am trying to install avast on my imac. When I click on download, a site comes up that is called clean my mac. Has anybody installed avast, the free version?
Yes. I installed Avast "free antivirus" version 2014.9.0.2006 on a brand new Mac containing nothing other than one minimally configured User account. It found hundreds of problems including "decompression bombs" corrupted archives, "too big to be processed" and "unknown errors". It also caused intermittent system unresponsiveness, and a popular benchmarking app (a crude but quantitative tool) recorded a 10% reduction in overall system performance.
Like most "anti-virus" programs, it's junk. Don't bother with such garbage. Let your Mac work as it was designed to work, without burdening it with worthless trash.
The advertisement for "CleanMyMac" should be dismissed with extreme prejudice, as should all such ads. Do not install any program claiming to "clean" your Mac unless you want real problems. They are all scams with one and only one purpose - to take your money, which is the only thing they do well.
OS X already includes everything it needs to protect itself from viruses and malware. Keep it that way with software updates from Apple.
To use your Mac properly, just use your head. Follow these few simple principles, most of which are equally applicable to any computing platform:
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.
I strongly recommend that you not install Avast, for the reasons John has given.
I wanted to point out one other thing, though... Clicking the download button on Avast's own site redirects you to a Download.com page for Avast. This is extremely bad, as Download.com cannot be trusted. They wrap a lot of the software on their site in an adware installer, without the approval (or, often, knowledge) of the developer of the software in question. See:
In addition, that page has three big green download buttons near the top of the page. Only one of them is real. The others are in advertisements for a scam program called TuneUpMyMac.
(Fair disclosure: The Safe Mac is my site, and contains a Donate button, so I may receive compensation for providing links to The Safe Mac. Donations are not required.)
Awesome, thank you so much clarifying this.
ann
thank you, i did and it is great. appreciate the quick response
ann
John,
Excellent explanation, and in layman's terms. This helps so much. I won't do the avast. Now I understand more about how to protect my mac.
thanks for the quick response.
ann
installing avast on mac osx