Malwarebytes Free version is great for adware, but that’s about all it looks for. If you want to protect against the more serious threats, VirusBarrier seems to be the best bet according to the testing I’ve seen... which is some months out of date, admittedly.
Charles Lindauer Lindauer Mac Consulting 707.479.6170 Sent from my iPad > On Dec 18, 2017, at 11:08 AM, Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I'll second that opinion. A friend of mine just had a very weird problem on > his iMac. Malwarebytes found the issue and removed it. All with just a single > run, and for free. (Personally, I didn’t even realize that there was Mac > malware out there in the wild. I guess it must have been an email Trojan or > some such.) Out of curiosity, Malwarebytes didn’t show up anything when run > on my own systems, but then I’m not experiencing any malware-related issues. > > -Carl > > >> On Dec 18, 2017, at 9:09 AM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I forgot – this mailing list is still configured such that replies never go >> back to the actual list. I do wish someone would change that. >> >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >>> From: Macs R We <[email protected]> >>> Date: December 18, 2017 at 9:05:36 AM MST >>> To: Jean-Christophe Helary <[email protected]> >>> Subject: Re: antivirus/malware ? >>> >>> I am a great fan of Malwarebytes. You can download it and run it manually >>> for free, or you can pay the company for the privilege of having them >>> continuously slow down your machine like every other anti-virus. It takes >>> only about a minute real time to scan your entire machine, because it looks >>> only for Macintosh malware, and not for the eight million PC viruses that >>> you will never catch (on the theory that you should be a good Joe and not >>> pass them on to some other PC user who also doesn’t run an antivirus – as >>> far as I’m concerned that’s his problem not yours). >>> >>>> On Dec 18, 2017, at 3:14 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> A client is kind of requesting that I install an anti-virus/malware on my >>>> mac... >>>> >>>> Do you have any recommendation ? I checked the web already and it looks >>>> like Sophos does the job *and* is free... >>>> >>>> >>>> Jean-Christophe Helary >>>> ----------------------------------------------- >>>> @brandelune http://mac4translators.blogspot.com >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> MacOSX-talk mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacOSX-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
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