To schedule automatic updates has equally unnecessary steps. The same result could have been achieved way more easily by adding a button " Activate Real Time Protection" in the main program interface, like most antivirus programs do.
If you choose to activate Sentry, ClamXav will monitor your Mac real-time, too, and you can make sure your software is always up-to-date, scheduling automatic updates from Preferences.
I've tested it on my iMac and the current version seems to have remarkably improved both performance and stability (it also solved a bug related to the download of definition updates). The main interface of ClamXav and a manual updateĬlamXav is freeware and its definitions are constantly updated.
Though most computers around are still Windows-based and most malicious software targets Windows system (more chances to strike home), as Mac computers have become more widely used, some specific malware for Mac has been detected.
It's a very interesting and efficient antivirus for Mac, comparable to other freeware and commercial solutions developed by the major antivirus software companies in recent years, when Mac computers started becoming more popular. It's been developed starting from the well-known and appreciated Clam Av open-source antivirus engine, with the addition of a graphic interface.
I can no longer see a "comments area" at the link originally provided.ClamXav is a free antivirus available for Mac. The user of the computer might well remain totally unaware that anything may be amiss. Who checks to make sure that this doesn't happen? Tell me, how can one be sure that if one downloads the "free trial" and installs the software, one isn't, in fact, loading malware ON to one's Apple computer? In the comments area after the article, David Brooks comments and poses these questions:. Good article here on whether or not one needs anti-virus software on an Apple Mac nowadays:.