Cathy Preston

January 30, 2010 at 12:33am

To remove spyware,there are many solutions exist, all of them with their own strengths and weaknesses.

Dating Advice

Alan Moore

September 18, 2007 at 3:29am

I happily used the predecessor to X4 and found it to be great... low footprint, very pro-active. Then one day, it auto-updated to X4 and suddenly my Mac was crashing daily, and often X4 would use 100% of one processor's power, which makes a big impact in a dual-core machine.

I painstakingly removed every little file, preference etc. from the machine -- something I'd never had to do on a Mac, bringing back horrible memories of my Windows days, and contacted Intego.

They had no fix, and recommended I reinstall version 3.

Disgusted, I moved to ClamXAV, and have never looked back.

Anonymous

September 12, 2007 at 12:13pm

If you're running Windows on a Mac using Parallels, Parallels includes the Kaspersky Internet Security Suite for Windows free of charge. Installing it is as simple as choosing to do so in one of the Parallels menus.

Dean

September 12, 2007 at 6:40am

The Mac finally has a virus, and it's called Microsoft Windows!

You don't really need a Mac based anti-virus solution for running Windows in a VM. Just don't share any part of the Mac with Windows. Go the other way. Create a Windows share and attach to it from the Mac side (Finder>>Go>>Connect To Server...). At least if Windows goes out of control and runs rampant with a virus/spyware it won't have access to your Mac partition.

I wouldn't open up a writable share on my Mac to any Windows system.

Macaholics_Anonymous

September 12, 2007 at 4:33am

ClamXav works!

I've used ClamXav for a few years and it has picked out a few corrupted files from an unscrupulous file sharing site. I haven't used any other AV software and because ClamXav has picked up on some corrupt files I would have to give it a 10/10. The sentry just runs in the background and does it's thing.

As for Mac viruses: I have a theory that the viruses circulating that are Windoze based 'could' be created by Mac loving anti-Microsoft techies or created by the actual AV software techies to create a market for their products. Mind you, this is only my personal theory and there has never been any evidence to support my personal theory. Makes you think though, doesn't it?

Daniel Millar

September 11, 2007 at 11:39am

I still say it's just a matter of time.... but I've been saying that for six years! The only shareware AV software for Mac I'm aware of is ClamXav which is a port of a Linux AV product - maybe that sounds like Climax or there is something called Climax?? ClamXav is good enough that Apple was and maybe still is shipping it with OS X Server. ClamXav is a good match for the level of threat - it costs nothing, is very unobtrusive, and combined with some common sense makes your Mac as safe as any other AV package. For a breakdown of Mac anti-virus software check out:
http://www.monitor.ca/monitor/issues/vol13iss10/guestshot.html
for a quick comparison of 5 Mac AV products, or:
http://www.monitor.ca/monitor/issues/vol14iss8/feature4.html
for instructions on how to install ClamXav.
By the way, Intego came out first in my shootout as well!