What's your recommended anti-virus software?

[santaliqueur]

My favorite antivirus software is OS X.

 

[GGJstudios]

Of course, but most of the folks infected probably have no idea what MacRumors is. If folks followed every security best practice there was, we'd have a lot less infected computers out there period, whether it be windows or osx.

I just don't want misinformation being spread that you have to enter in an admin password to be susceptible to it, it's just not true. If you have an out of the box install of osx with nothing done to it, you are susceptible, period.

Quite true. Of course, those who don't know what MacRumors is won't be able to read your post, either.

 

[bradp015]

iv never had AV on my macs.
the issue for me is clients files. they will bring there audio files, word files, sometimes artwork, text files etc..(im in audio production)
most of them are on the win platform, although that is starting to change. ;-)
im always a bit concerned about copying there files to my work mac.

i see i have two choices:
1. put AV on the work mac, and disable it when i dont need it
2. get a junk mac/pc to run a scan before the copy. (PITA it seems)

thoughts?
thanks,brad

 

[snberk103]

iv never had AV on my macs.
the issue for me is clients files. they will bring there audio files, word files, sometimes artwork, text files etc..(im in audio production)
most of them are on the win platform, although that is starting to change. ;-)
im always a bit concerned about copying there files to my work mac.

i see i have two choices:
1. put AV on the work mac, and disable it when i dont need it
2. get a junk mac/pc to run a scan before the copy. (PITA it seems)

thoughts?
thanks,brad

At this point, there is no chance of your Mac OS X catching anything from the Win files. So, there is no point in installing an AV application to protect OS X. However, if you are running a Windows virtual machine, or Windows in Bootcamp then the Windows installation is as vulnerable as any other Windows installation.

However, with a VM you can take a snapshot of your Windows installation before you have handled any client files. After each interaction, you just reload the clean snapshot and start with a clean slate.

If you are handling Win files, and then passing them on to someone else (not the client who sent you the files) then I would get an AV scanner that you can use to on demand to scan those files. In case the client sending you the files has been infected, you don't want to pass it own. Plus, it's good business. You can protest all you want, but if you send files with a virus to a client, you're getting the blame - not the source of the files in first place.

 

[Huntn]

It's been so long since I've worried about AV on my Mac, recent news jolted me a bit. I've got a old G5 with Virus Barrier on it that I've not updated since 2010. Today I downloaded ClamXav and ran scans on both my G5 (10.5) and my MBP (10.6)

I found 19 Heuristics.Phishing.Email.Spoofed Domain emails on my computer, vendors from Sears to Amazon Rewards Visa Card:

*Sears Card <searscard@info2.searscard.com>
*"Amazon.com Rewards Visa Card" <Chase@emails.chase.com>

However one of the emails that was listed as Phishing was from: From:alerts@citibank.com
Subject:Credit Card - Balance Notice

This was regarding our Sears Card, the balance was Zero and did not ask for anything or offer anything. Plus it included my wife's name and the last 4 digits of her card number and knew how long she had been a member. Although it did say if she had any questions to log onto our account and an email link to www.searscard.com was provided. This made me wonder if the AV program could of made a mistake- thoughts?

 

[GGJstudios]

This made me wonder if the AV program could of made a mistake- thoughts?

Sounds like a false-positive to me. As long as you go directly to the Sears site to login, rather than clicking a link in the email, you'll be fine.