Clamav For Mac Review
steadadelica
- Jan 01, 2021 There is a reason that ClamAV exists for Linux. Let's just leave aside why. I suspect there might be some virus on the iMac. Is it possible to take the tarball and use make and configure in some way that will make clamAV useable on the mac?
- ClamXav is a graphic user interface for OS X based on Clam, a popular and powerful open-source and cross-platform antivirus. Until a few months ago you could download it for free, but now you have to buy it from the developer’ site. ClamXav has two main features: a thorough scanof your hard disk, and a real-time warden called CalmXav Sentry.
Alternatively, you’ll be able to find installation instructions for the program by visiting Pkgs.org, as they have an extensive list of ClamAV packages for most Linux distributions. Comodo Antivirus. Comodo Antivirus is a robust, freemium exploit scanner for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
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- G4 sawtooth sonnet encore st 1.8GHz, 1.5GB Ram + MacBook 2.4GHz, 4GB runing OS 10.5.6
I'm currently working in Malawi, Africa - I am the only mac user in an office (strangely makes me want a PC for the first time in years! must be the heat), but with so many PC viruses its pain full to watch them all (actually I'm glad i have a mac). none of these effect my machine although it can harbour them. however, i am using Office for Mac 2004 and have been sharing data with collogues. after one particular occasion i started up excel and the tool bars had disappeared and what's more i started to get an error message saying 'no more fonts can be used in this workbook' or something to that effect and the Excel GUI graphics started to disappear, although the window remains and none of the other applications are effected; in short every thing apart from excel is ok? when oppened i am asked if i would like to disable macros - but i haven't placed any in the workbook, so i'm presuming its a macro virus?
ClamAV cant detect it and i don't know how many of my workbooks are infected?
is there any thing i can do to search out which are infected and possibly clean them, or is the data lost, or is it something else entirely?
thanks
Installing
ClamAV can be found for Ubuntu in the apt repository. Run this command to install ClamAV:
apt-get install clamav
If you need clamd, you may also want to run:
apt-get install clamav-daemon
If you require support for scanning compressed RAR files you first need to enable the non-free archive, and then you can install the RAR-plugin using:
apt-get install libclamunrar6
There are two classes of clamav packages available for Ubuntu users:
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Released Set
The released set (release, *-updates, and *-security) are patched for security updates. Following extensive testing of clamav and the packages that use it in the backports repository, they may be updated to a newer version. These are official Ubuntu packages and supported by community developers.
Backports
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The Ubuntu backports repository will contain the newest clamav version that has been at least lightly tested to work with that version. These packages can be installed by enabling the backports repository on your system.
Ubuntu packages are maintained by Ubuntu MOTU Developers.