virus question

[brentg33]

so in a previous post, i am having some problems with the lastest version of ClamXav.....which made me think...at this current time what are people in this forum using for virus/spyware, etc scanning...if anything?

thanks
brent

 

[::Lisa::]

Nothing here, so far.

I won't use IS or AV until there are enough viruses out there for OS X to cause us to do that.

 

[ascender]

Nothing.

 

[Sherman Homan]

There are no viruses that afflict OS X. The only mal-ware are things like DNS re-directs but you have to consciously choose to install them. It takes admin level authorization to do. There will never be protection against that!
So, there is no need for anti-virus software. There are unusual examples of acting as a good neighbor if you ever intercept a virus laden PC document, but any PC left so unprotected is already hosed.

 

[JSchwage]

Nothing. Antivirus programs on the Mac seems to bring more bad than good.

 

[Neil321]

Nothing at present