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Ask HN: Best Anti-virus for mac?
I've looked at Sophos, but I'm terrified one of these programs will put its hooks in like McAfee.
- iancarroll 12y agoAvast is the best you can get for free - I'd buy Kaspersky or ESET if you're willing to pay.
- binaryanomaly 12y agoI have bitdefender. So far it didn't bother me which is good.
- bediger4000 12y agoBefore you go with anything proprietary or closed source, you should read Tavis Ormandy's "Sophail" papers: https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/sophail.pdf https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/sophail.pdf https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/sophailv2.pdf https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/sophailv2.pdf I suppose you could try to convince yourself that the Mac version comes from a different code base than the Windows version, or that Sophos (or any other vendor) has cleaned up their act, or that Ormanday was just being bitter. But seriously, folks...
- aareet 12y agoI use ClamXAV and it works really well. The app-store version doesn't have it's constant monitoring daemon, but if you download the DMG from the website, you get constant monitoring as well.