Clamav For Mac Os X

As Clamxav website says 'ClamXav is a trusted and highly recommended anti-virus and malware scanner for Mac OS X with the ability to detect both Mac and Windows threats.' Unlike some of the reviews below.

For
  • ClamAssassin is a simple script for virus scanning an e-mail message as a filter. If a message is virus infected, the X-Virus-Status header is set to Yes and the X-Virus-Report header is set to the virus(es) found. If the message is fine, it is passed through with X-Virus-Status set to No.
  • I see the same thing here on a PowerBook G4 running 10.4 (Tiger). I had ClamXav with clamav engine 0.83 running okay since 10.3.9. Frank I've just 'upgraded' to Mac OS X Server, which according to all the.
  • ClamXav 2 has the starkest interface of all the Mac antivirus programs we reviewed. It looks like another window of the Mac OS X's Finder; files being scanned are listed in alternating blue.

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


Mac

There are two classes of clamav packages available for Ubuntu users:

Clam Antivirus Mac Os X

Released Set

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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.

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Backports

Clamav For Mac Os X 10.10

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.