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ClamXAV: Free Anti Virus

Magnus Nystedt | Feb 29, 2008 | Comments View Comments

Whether you really need antivirus software on your Mac or not is a hotly debated issue. The antivirus software that most people know about is Norton Antivirus, which also happens to be the antivirus software that most Mac users would say you should stay away from. Norton AV may be good at removing viruses, I don’t know, but in my experience it’s not very good software. It takes up a lot of system resources and causes all kinds of problems. To me it seems it’s more trouble than it’s worth. But we’re fortunate that there are alternatives. VirusBarrier from Intego is a better choice than Norton AV in my opinion (see review of NetBarrier in this issue of Shuffle). ClamXAV is another option and it’s a great application which is available for free. ClamXAV (http://clamxav.com/) is a Mac OS X version of the Clam Antivirus (AV) software (http://www.clamav.net/).

by Magnus Nystedt

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