Q: snow leopard malware detection
I just read an article on this site about the automatic protection provided on SL machine by Safari. That's fine but as you know the Safari version that can be installed on SL 32bit machine is no longer supported. That's to say you'd better never use Safari if you have this machine (the same for Chrome and somehow Opera. FF is ok).
Of course I CANNOT afford to buy a brand new mac (mine is working really fine) just to bypass the problem. What's about clamxav (I used since ages and it never detect a single problem ... ), Sophos or anything similar?
Thanks
p.s.
I use flashblock, ADB, no-script and little snitch
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Posted on Jul 1, 2015 2:19 AM
mauhey67 wrote:
is the xprotect thing done automatically?
As long as you have it enabled in System Preferences->Security->General tab "Automatically install important security updates".
Is it possible to check it?
Open the Terminal app, copy and paste the following line and hit return:
defaults read /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/XProtect.meta Version
p.s. no one of you mentioned clamxav
Since I volunteer uncompensated tech support on the ClamXav Forum I could be seen as having a bias, so I refrain from making such recommendations.
I do have half a dozen A-V scanners installed, but none of them are active. I have them for testing purposes and in case there is ever a day when I feel I must use one. I have experienced Sophos stability issues two or three times over several years now for unknown reasons, and had to re-install, but since I don't use it regularly I can't properly evaluate it's problems or capabilities beyond what I've read here.
Posted on Jul 3, 2015 1:55 AM

