Anti-virus for OS-X

[Murpheeee]

Looking for a good anti-virus progam to run in an OS-X Tiger lab.

Only one I know of is Symantec AV10, but knowing Symantec on PC, I'd rather avoid that if poss.

Cheers

 

[n0cmonkey]

Symantec is the best enterprise AV solution out there that I know of.

What Mac OS X viruses are you worried about?

 

[Murpheeee]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Symantec is the best enterprise AV solution out there that I know of.

What Mac OS X viruses are you worried about?

currently we have no protection.

there were a few os-x viruses came out in the past year, I just want to cover our asses.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Murpheeee

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Symantec is the best enterprise AV solution out there that I know of.

What Mac OS X viruses are you worried about?

currently we have no protection.

there were a few os-x viruses came out in the past year, I just want to cover our asses.

I wasn't aware of any viruses for OS X...

 

[sparkyclarky]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Murpheeee

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Symantec is the best enterprise AV solution out there that I know of.

What Mac OS X viruses are you worried about?

currently we have no protection.

there were a few os-x viruses came out in the past year, I just want to cover our asses.

I wasn't aware of any viruses for OS X...

There wasn't any to speak of. There has been some proof of concepts though.

That said, running a Mac AV solution in a lab is a decent idea, if only to prevent people from forwarding viruses in e-mails, over P2P files, and the like. Essentially helping to preemptively stop the spread of viruses.

 

[chcarnage]

I would like to stress that:

1. There are no OS X viruses in the wild.
2. There is no known, self-replicating proof of concept.

Selfquoting sucks, but here is a history of hoaxes from me:

MP3Concept was a proof of concept for something completely different, it was found in a usergroup and hyped by the antivir company Intego. Sophos' mysterious Mac/Cowhand.A is the same story. These two were not the only false alerts.

I know one trojan, but it has to be installed locally and intentionally. Some genius once activated a script named "Microsoft Office", he got it from a P2P-Network and the file was only a few kilobytes. It deleted his user directory. Stupid^2 but this is a "mac virus" that has got media attention!

So it doesn't really matter what you chose, because everything is good against hot air I wouldn't buy a product because every big company has made an alarmistic stunt by now.

Get a backup strategy and a firewall, don't use the root account if not necessary and regularly update OS X. This makes a Mac as malware proof as it goes in my opinion. I have no need for an annoying email cop program or a Symantec tarball on my Macs! :thumbsup:

 

[LiekOMG]

AV software only helps to slow down the system and corrupt files. If you're running OSX, don't even bother.

 

[hopejr]

I would only get a virus scanner for macro viruses and to prevent passing on Windows viruses to windows machines.
I've only heard bad things about Symantec products on OS X (before reading one of the posts in this thread). Apparently it screws up HFS+ no end by putting heaps of redundant forks in and wasting space. There's an AV I have heard of called Virex. I don't know how good it is though. (don't have a link, probably just google for it).

 

[astrophysics]

there is Sophos... and you can probably compile AVs for linux... like clamav

 

[imported_Lucifer]

Originally posted by: hopejr
I would only get a virus scanner for macro viruses and to prevent passing on Windows viruses to windows machines.
I've only heard bad things about Symantec products on OS X (before reading one of the posts in this thread). Apparently it screws up HFS+ no end by putting heaps of redundant forks in and wasting space. There's an AV I have heard of called Virex. I don't know how good it is though. (don't have a link, probably just google for it).

It's Norton Systemworks that screws up OS X. Norton AV, however, is fine. I use it, works great. While surfing some sites, not pr0n, but game ROM sites, some PC viruses would download on my desktop. But, of course, they didn't affect me and Norton immediatly picked up the viruses. I also can scan my brothers PC over my network. Norton on my Mac actually picked up more viruses than Norton on his PC. So he ditched Norton for PC, and put Zonealarm, which works a lot better for him.

Virex comes with Apple's .Mac software. Not sure how good it is either, but reading up on it from the Apple Discussions is a good idea.

 

[JDCentral]

DON'T USE NORTON!!!!

Norton installs a kernel-hook - in my experience, at least, OS X just doesn't behave the same, after installing Norton.

And good luck removing it The uninstall utility doesn't seem to work correctly.

 

[Satyrist]

Largely,

the closest example of the only sorts of 'viruses' that really has been shown in the wild so far as OS X is concerned, are perhaps either word/office macro viruses, or quasi-trojan executables written in applescript.

So far as actual viruses in the wild that are specific to OS X, if there are any, I don't know of any.

 

[imported_2x]

Virex from McAfee