Comments on: Free Anti-Virus for Mac

By: Kirill

Kirill — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 05:52:59 +0000

Run an anti virus prog on my Mac and gues what? 5 Trojans. I had a tiger os . That was 2 month ago. Last week my Mac took a dive. U deside.

By: fa

fa — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 05:42:06 +0000

Thinking that you are safe from all virus threats is exactly what will get you infected, a false sense of security. And that is on any OS you may use. It’s an open market already, Anti virus software will flood the mac’s eventually, along with all the threats…

@The Skeptic: How do you know if someone else installed something like “http://preyproject.com/” , skipping password protection using any methods mentioned anywhere online: http://lifehacker.com/5681710/how-to-break-into-a-mac-and-prevent-it-from-happening-to-you

I’ve done that to several macs, 3 months and still stealing info that way…. not really just to get you thinking.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 22:07:32 +0000

Yeah, I got the same thing. I’m frequently not connected. My Macbook rebooted OK but then hung up when I tried to login to my admin account. I had to boot in safe mode to uninstall. (Mis) spent over an hour poring over logs, in a futile effort to figure out why. What a drag!

Sophos may have the best antimalware software since the creation of the world, but I can’t use it…it doesn’t work and play well with my computer.

By: CM

CM — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:08:31 +0000

Sounds to me like you ran into some spam pop-ups from the Windows world

By: someGuy

someGuy — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:02:48 +0000

i’ve been getting some strange pages opening up in fire fox on my home machine

windows like interfaces telling me i have a virus. when i open a web page they redirect to these weird pages

been planning on reformatting anyway once i get a drive to back up to but maybe i’ll try this in the mean time

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 09:24:59 +0000

It runs fine until you decide to reboot your machine and it’s not connected to the network. You then get a machine that will boot but hang just after finder launches. I found this out the hard way.

I’ve contacted Sophos to see what they have to say but in the mean time I’ve removed the app…

By: Joseph

Joseph — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 02:00:33 +0000

Crashes my computer every time it scans, and that makes it useless for me.

By: Paster

Paster — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:56:48 +0000

Still useless for Mac indeed, the only risk would be if you install cracked software with an embedded trojan. Other than that you have to be rather stupid to get infected.

By: Bo

Bo — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 09:12:55 +0000

Did I realy need this or any antivirus .. I`m running my Snow Leopard since 1 year .. Yesterday I download this free Sophos antivirus and it did not catch any virus ot thread .. What do you think for any antivirus for Mac guys ?

By: The Skeptic

The Skeptic — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 04:41:17 +0000

Did you deliberately forget to mention that the “new” trojan requires you to enter an Administrator username and password to install it? Even if you are already running as an Administrator?

This is not a significant threat. Show me a true virus (something that installs itself without my permission and explicit authorisation), and I will think about installing something like this…

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 16:49:38 +0000

I appreciate free software but honestly don’t see much of a threat to my Mac

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