Here we use Sophos Antivirus which has a MAC client, we have 
very few MAC's here but it seems to work fine and gets updates automatically 
through the same system that updates all the Windows clients.

From: Andrew Laya [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 10:03 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Mac Anti-Malware

I have heard the same suggestion made.  It is supposed to be a very good 
product and for a 1 off, I would lean in that direction.  At work, we 
corporately use McAfee across the board, on PC and Mac clients, and have no 
issues with it.

Andrew

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Sherry Abercrombie 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Our Mac guru here recommends ClamAV, or actually for the Mac version I think 
it's ClamXAV.  Free, open source, certainly worth looking into.  It's what he 
uses at home on his personal Macs.

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Jon Harris 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Well the user in question has repeatly stated that he does not need AV but the 
Univeristy just said make it so (cutting out his argument that he does not need 
any).  That said we will not install anything from Symantec after the last time 
we used their stuff and had it NOT find viruses.  McAfee may be an option but 
not one I was hoping to see.

Jon
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:36 PM, John Aldrich 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

That's a good question. The most common answer you're going to find is "we 
don't need antivirus/anti-malware." For the most part that is true, as OS X is 
based on Unix (BSD to be exact, I think.) That being said, there has been some 
recently publicized (in this list even, I think :)) activity that warrants 
looking for anti-malware on the Mac.

My suggestion would be to check the "usual suspects": McAfee, AVG, Symantec 
(YUCK!), etc.

I just did a little bit of looking (not much, mind) and the ONLY thing I found 
was Avast! has a Mac version. Trend Micro (maker of PC-Cillin and host of the 
free on-line virus scanner "antivirus.com<http://antivirus.com/>") makes a Mac 
version of their stuff, so it's available. You just have to look a lot harder 
to find it than with Windows anti-malware. :)



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From: Jon Harris [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 12:21 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Mac Anti-Malware



What is a good Mac OS X(?) Anti-Malware software?  I have zero experience with 
Mac's and was just instructed to begin looking for some software for one.  
Anyone got a good recommendation they will offer up?



Thanks and I am off to see what is out there.



Jon Harris





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