It is schedulable.  As for on-demand, not really, but you can set it up
to watch particular folders (e.g. your downloads folder).  
http://www.clamxav.com/index.php?page=sentry

________________________________

From: Jon Harris [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 4:48 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Mac Anti-Malware


Does it do On-access scans and can it be setup to do scheduled scans.  I
thought Clam was only a on-demand scanner.
 
Jon


On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Mayo, Bill <[email protected]>
wrote:


        +1

________________________________

        From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[email protected]] 
        Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 12:57 PM 

        To: NT System Admin Issues
        
        Subject: Re: Mac Anti-Malware
        
        
        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]> 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]> 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 J) 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. J

                         

                          

                         

                        From: Jon Harris [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

                         

                         

                        No virus found in this incoming message.
                        Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
<http://www.avg.com/> 
                        Version: 8.5.339 / Virus Database:
270.12.53/2154 - Release Date: 06/04/09 05:53:00

                         

                        

                         

                        


                 

                

                 




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