Pls recommend good Antivirus for Mac

[bryan]

Not sure if this is the right place for this, but as subject says, please do recommend. :)

[Xerxes]

Mac don't get viruses... lmao!

[violent]

There were days when someone would ask "which antivirus is best for the PC" and the answer would be "A Mac".

If those days were cowboys then I have to ask, "Where have all the cowboys gone?"

[bryan]

I just told my Dad that Macs don't really get viruses, but he won't let go of the idea. Sheesh.

[violent]

I'm not giving you shit. I'm not giving you help either. Consider me the dash in the sentence.

[bryan]

My sheesh wasn't direct at you, FYI. :)

[violent]

My sheesh wasn't direct at you, FYI. :)

Ah, gotcha. I'll keep an eye out for ya but not sure of any off the top of my head.

[Lance Uppercut]

Personally, I use NOD32. Small memory footprint, but good protection.

[jeffbax]

clamXav is probably the best one I can think of. Note: there are no Mac viruses at this point, though if you are working with risky windows files you can still pass them to others. There are however, a handful of Mac trojans around, though thats more user error than anything.

Most Mac users don't really need to run anti-virus though.

[Chris_D]

Yeah I was wondering if anyone had any Mac virus experiences to share? Maybe it's just my usage patterns but in 15 years on PC I only ever had 2 virus/trojan experiences, and none in 5 years on the Mac. Up until now at least I've pretty much assumed it's not something I have to worry about (on Mac that is).

[Slack3r78]

clamXav is probably the best one I can think of. Note: there are no Mac viruses at this point, though if you are working with risky windows files you can still pass them to others. There are however, a handful of Mac trojans around, though thats more user error than anything.

Most Mac users don't really need to run anti-virus though.
Second clamXav for the same reason. It's mostly a courtesy to Windows users.

[Khrymsyn]

I'll third the recommendation of clamXAV.

Although, if he feels that a "Free" program can't possibly be as secure as a pay one, there's always Intego VirusBarrier or Norton Anti-Virus.

[PathMaster]

Clam here as well.

[total]

Second clamXav for the same reason. It's mostly a courtesy to Windows users.

Truth. Unless you are on a network with Windows machines you don't really need any anti virus.