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    Best Antivirus for Mac?

    Hey guys, This one needs votes. Well there are not many known virus threats for Mac OS X. But as more and more people opting for Mac, there are changes for Mac to be a bigger target for hackers and virus developers. What do you guys think about the available antivirus for Mac OS? Can you suggest and vote for Best Antivirus for Mac?

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    Re: Best Antivirus for Mac?

    iAntiVirus is antivirus software for Intel based Apple Macintosh computers running Mac OS 10.5. The software was developed by PC Tools and released in June 2008. It can be used to detect and remove malware, spyware and exploits, using both signature based and heuristic detection.

    iAntiVirus has been criticized because it only scans for Macintosh viruses, rather than scanning for Windows, Linux and Mac viruses as do alternative software. However, it has also been praised for its low usage of system resources and quick scanning.

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    Re: Best Antivirus for Mac?

    Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It provides a number of utilities including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner and advanced tool for automatic database updates. The core of the package is an anti-virus engine available in a form of shared library.

    Here is a list of the main features:

    * command-line scanner
    * fast, multi-threaded daemon with support for on-access scanning
    * milter interface for sendmail
    * advanced database updater with support for scripted updates and digital signatures
    * virus scanner C library
    * on-access scanning (Linux and FreeBSD)
    * virus database updated multiple times per day (see home page for total number of signatures)
    * built-in support for various archive formats, including Zip, RAR, Tar, Gzip, Bzip2, OLE2, Cabinet, CHM, BinHex, SIS and others
    * built-in support for almost all mail file formats
    * built-in support for ELF executables and Portable Executable files compressed with UPX, FSG, Petite, NsPack, wwpack32, MEW, Upack and obfuscated with SUE, Y0da Cryptor and others

    * built-in support for popular document formats including MS Office and MacOffice files, HTML, RTF and PDF

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    Re: Best Antivirus for Mac?

    Norton AntiVirus 11 for Mac introduced support for Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard platform, with the capability to detect both Macintosh and Windows malware. Other features include a vulnerability scanner, which blocks attackers from leveraging software exploits. Norton AntiVirus 11 also includes the ability to scan within compressed or archived files, such as Time Capsule volumes. Operating requirements call for Macintosh OS X v10.4.10. A PowerPC or an Intel Core processor, 128 MB of RAM, and 100 MB of free hard disk space are also required. Norton AntiVirus Dual Protection for Mac is intended for Macintosh users with Windows running on their systems, using Boot Camp or virtualization software such as VMWare Fusion. It provides a license for both Norton AntiVirus 11 with Norton AntiVirus 2009.

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