Hi there, On Sat, 2 Jan 2021, Finn isme wrote:
I am an ordinary user of macOS who has dabbled with Linux in the past. I wonder if your organization would be willing to make ClamAV and a ClamAV frontend available on the macOS store. For awhile now, Apple has a no-fee policy for non-profits as shown here: https://developer.apple.com/support/membership-fee-waiver/
I'm not sure that Cisco, with just shy of 76,000 employees and a net annual income of over ten billion dollars, qualifies as a 'non-profit': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_Systems
I would prefer to have some antivirus solution on macOS, however all those available on the Apple App Store seem to have negative reviews concerning how they disrupted the macOS system.
As Joel says, you can indeed install ClamAV on a Mac. If you search the list archives you will find many posts from Mac users. Some are very recent. It's not perfectly straightforward to install, but then security isn't perfectly straightforward. If you are unable to follow the installation instructions at https://www.clamav.net/documents/installation-on-macos-mac-os-x then you can always ask for help on the ClamAV users list (not on this list, which as you know is for development). Do not, however, assume that if you install ClamAV then you are as if by magic somehow "protected". That's a long way from being the case. Your best protections are to keep on top of security updates, (both the Mac system and any installed software), to be sensible about what software you install on your computer, about what you browse, and how you deal with email. Note that many software offerings which claim to offer 'protection' of some kind are simply malicious software, thinly disguised as something that you would want on your computer. Perhaps even most of them. I would never install an 'app' from any store, on anything, no matter what its promoters promised to provide. The first thing I did when I got a smartphone was remove all the apps that came with it, including the browser. It now has exactly two apps on it. I built them myself. It's never been compromised, nor has anything on our network. Take great care with email. At the moment I'm getting a more than thousand malicious messages per month from 'protection.outlook.com' - Microsoft's own email service. The messages mostly come from servers in Austria, Eire, Finland, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and the USA but I do see a few from elsewhere. Google's email service used to lead my league table of cr@p email suppliers, now they're second to Microsoft. If you feel it's essential to accept some level of risk, you could for example intall a virtual machine package on the Mac, and use a browser running on the VM instead of the one running native on your Mac. Even a VM doesn't totally remove the risks, so it's just a suggestion, not a recommendation. Don't forget that you can configure your browser to reject a lot of junk like javascript code from untrusted sources, but, even more important, don't forget that nothing can be trusted.
postscript - I'm not sure if I will be able to read your replies and I'm emailing from a Comcast email account.
You should have no trouble getting replies from the list email server but please don't attempt to reply to me personally, as my list address only accepts mail from the list server and in any case my servers will reject all connection attempts from Comcast IPs. -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ clamav-devel mailing list clamav-devel@lists.clamav.net https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-devel Please submit your patches to our Github: https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav-devel/pulls Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
