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Thread Author: Iffy Replies: 3
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New Sat 18 Aug 12 21:26 
 Antivirus on a Mac - Iffy
Had the Mac two years now and never bothered.

But I'm sure the 'Macs don't get viruses' line is rubbish, so I've downloaded and installed this:

www.iantivirus.com/

It's made by Norton and available from the Apple app store, which I hope means it's half reasonable.

It found one suspect file on my MacBook and deleted it.

I'm told Sophos do a free anti-virus program for Mac, but I know even less about that than this one.

Any Mac virus contributions welcome.

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New Sat 18 Aug 12 21:48 
 Antivirus on a Mac - Haywain
I've always used (paid for) NOD 32 from Eset on our PCs, then extended it when we acquired an i-Mac in April.

My sons both have Macbook Pros upon which they are dependent for doing their work - yet they refuse to bother with anti-virus software. I hope they don't learn the hard way!
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New Sun 19 Aug 12 00:05 
 Antivirus on a Mac - NortonES2
I use ClamXav - free. Have a look on the Apple Usage forums, perhaps, about Norton. I recall it was reputed to be trouble.
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New Sun 19 Aug 12 00:51 
 Antivirus on a Mac - teabelly
I use ClamXAv too.

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