There are objective tests, reviews and standards you can go by, so if you feel the need for an AV utility do some research and you'll cut through the rhetoric. Jul 16, PM. Jun 2, AM. Jun 2, AM in response to jazjoey In response to jazjoey. Question: Q: Check for virus on my mac pro More Less. Communities Get Support. Sign in Sign in Sign in corporate. Browse Search. Ask a question. User profile for user: Ishel23 Ishel Can someone tell me how I can find out if my Macbook pro has a virus?
More Less. Reply I have this question too I have this question too Me too Me too. All replies Drop Down menu. Loading page content. User profile for user: Bimmer 7 Series Bimmer 7 Series. Reply Helpful Thread reply - more options Link to this Post. After installation, ClamXav 2 launches and begins its first definition update. ClamXav 2 has the starkest interface of all the Mac antivirus programs we reviewed.
As free, open-source software, ClamXav doesn't come bundled with Windows or Android software the way some commercial programs do. For those platforms, check out our roundups of the best Mac antivirus software and the best Android antivirus apps.
Before starting a scan, you must choose which files on your hard drive you want scanned. I dragged in the entire Macintosh HD volume. To begin the scan, highlight the desired folder or volume in the Source List by clicking on it, and then click the green Start Scan button at the top of the window.
ClamXav 2 has no prepared full-scan or quick-scan options. The other buttons at the top of ClamXav 2's panel are for updating its list of virus definitions, viewing a log of scans, viewing a log of updates and a Preferences button. In Preferences, you can create a whitelist of file types you don't want ClamXav 2 to scan.
You can schedule anti-malware scans, but the scheduler is buried away under the Preferences button. If you only glanced at ClamXav 2, you might think scheduled scans aren't possible. One component of ClamXav 2, called ClamXav Sentry, automatically scans imported files as they're copied onto your Mac.
The App Store version of ClamXav 2 doesn't contain this feature, which we nonetheless considered very important.
The Mac antivirus programs from Avast, Bitdefender, Sophos and Intego have similar file-scanning features. In addition to scanning files, ClamXav 2 also has the option to scan email content for malicious attachments and phishing attempts. ClamXav 2 is an antivirus scanner only, without extra features. It can't stop malware from installing itself via a drive-by browser download, for example. But it can also detect Windows malware on a Mac, as can the other Mac antivirus products we reviewed.
Windows malware can't harm a Mac computer, but it can spread via Macs to other Windows computers. ClamXav also doesn't have any kind of Web-link scanning component, for detecting malicious links and Web pages as you browse the Internet. Avast, Bitdefender and Sophos all have some form of this feature built into their products.
Sorry to have to uninstall it at the end of this month, but this software model has got to stop. Sparrowhawk Oct 8 So not free, but so close as to make no real difference. Yes others are completely free, but from experience they also consume more system resources and are a PITA to remove. Here we have a developer who cares about the Mac, who puts real effort into getting a quality program out, and yes, who asks to be paid for his work. Seems fair to me. Not that I'm a fan of subscriptions, but in this case it's almost a no-brainer.
The only other two subs I maintain are for JetBrains products and Office In each case for me, the constant updates and improvements, and decent licensing terms have been enough to persuade me to opt in. The UI could do with a little more polish, it's true. Those drive icons are a little too big and don't fit in well with the look and feel of a modern Mac, but to be honest, I don't spend my life inside the GUI of my AV software, so I don't really care too much about that.
One thing to note: the scanning speeds, and the ramp up time before a scan actually begins are both hugely improved over v2. A very welcome improvement indeed. Funjoy Oct 6 It's been an okay app, a little slow, a little clunky-looking. In all this time it's found a grand total of 6 pieces of malware on my system - all old Windows malware embedded in saved html files.
In all comparison tests the app falls in the middle to the back of the pack. Still, I'd fire it up periodically and let it slowly go through my system looking for any malware.
I guess I haven't run it lately because when I launched it today I discovered that there's a v 3. Granted, I haven't seen any reviews of this app's latest version. I'm keeping an open mind, and will wait for reviews to come out, but I'm not upgrading yet.
Jaimesc Oct 5 I understand people have to earn a living. I don't expect everything for free. However: 1 ClamXav licences less than 2 years old are now useless: virus updates we hear will be stopped from end of oct. This is notunreasonable, excelt that with point 1 we do not have the option of continuing to use existing versions: therefore upgrading to V3 forces an OX upgrade.
Furthermore ClamXav has always had a problem as far as I'm concerned: the spinning ball curse when performing most actions. A quick test: - A staight "open clamxav" : two minutes of spinning ball leading to "Starting update Which still won't respond: More spinning ball.
I did not insist, since I left ClamXav scanning quietly in the background and didn't use the interface, spinning ball issue preventing. Regarding protection: I can't judge on this point since all I have found is about three phishing emails picked up by ClamXav over the last two years. Therefore I wil not be renewing my licence by upgrading my OS and moving to a subscription model, much as I appreciate programmers need to earn a living: it doesn't work well enough.
The small yearly fee covers daily updates, upgrades and support. Frankly that is a small price to pay to protect your computer and data. The developer is dedicated to the app — and version 3.
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