At the moment there are very few viruses, trojaners or other malware out there which chose Mac OS X as their host operating system. But it’s still not a bad idea to install a virus scanner on OS X. A popular scanner on Linux/UNIX, and therefore OS X, is Clamav, a open source scanner. ClamXav provides a simple GUI to control the scanner. Included in the installation image is not only the GUI but also the complete clamav scanner engine so that no further software installation is necessary.
It’s also possible to watch specified folders for viruses using the included ClamXav Sentry service, so that a effective on-access-scanner is also included.
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