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Required antivirus software?

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capvt

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Aug 8, 2014
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Hi!

My university is now requiring all students to install an antivirus program in order to connect to campus wifi. The software they are recommending is avast!, and I am in no way inclined to run that on my system.

I'm fully aware that macs do not need an antivirus program, and would not be considering installing one if it was not mandatory. That being said, can anyone recommend a program that would not be harmful or disruptive to my system?

Thanks!
 
northernmunky said:
I'm guessing your campus IT people are Windows guys and not very Mac savvy
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You are guessing correctly. I've also tried reasoning with them, to no avail. I'll run the ClamAV suggestion past them, but I'm not optimistic.
 
I'm not 100% sure how they are verifying it this year, but when I was required to have Kaspersky, the wifi just wouldn't connect unless the software was installed. I don't know anything about the mechanics of it.
 
capvt said:
I'm not 100% sure how they are verifying it this year, but when I was required to have Kaspersky, the wifi just wouldn't connect unless the software was installed. I don't know anything about the mechanics of it.
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I'm curious because the only time I have seen this in use was with Symantec's SEP, and each host had to be running the SEP client connected to a company owned policy server. That makes it easy to discriminate between hosts with A/V and those without it, but only works if they all are required to use one vendor.

That doesn't seem to be what they're doing here if they don't require a specific product. It might mean that on-demand scanners that aren't daemonized won't work because I can't see how they would know the specific software installed on your machine.
 
So how will they know? Do they plan to run a audit bit of software on your machine?

I wonder if it runs on Yosemite beta.....
 
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