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ClamXav just went commercial, no open source version
- korginator 11y agoHow ready are they to go commercial? The update process has been extremely flaky at best, over the past several years. On many machines, I've had to uninstall and reinstall the software for it to make any sort of connection to its updates servers. It's not clear what their value proposition is when compared to the other well established commercial & free AV vendors. Some like sophos are quite light and unobtrusive.
- qnaal 11y agois it substantially more than a graphical frontend to clamav? and since clamav is GPL, does that mean subscribers get rights to the source?
- plumeria 11y agoIt is listed as the only packaged solution for ClamAV, otherwise you'll need to build from source. See: http://www.clamav.net/download.html http://www.clamav.net/download.html Edit: There is a Homebrew package: http://brewformulas.org/Clamav http://brewformulas.org/Clamav
- huxley 11y agoDoesn't seem like it, it's a GUI app that runs CLI commands and flags for ClamAV, which is separately installed, according to Mark Allan, the developer of ClamXav: https://www.clamxav.com/BB/viewtopic.php?p=2386#p2386 https://www.clamxav.com/BB/viewtopic.php?p=2386#p2386 ClamXav was never open-source, it was previously freeware/donationware.
- Zaephyr 11y agoThe purchase page says that it for non-commercial use; no link to a commercial version. Looks like it is still free in the App Store FWIW.
- yabatopia 11y agoAt the bottom of the Store page is a link to the Commercial Store for commercial licenses. No initial launch discounts there. There's also an Education Store.
- eximius 11y agoOh lord, I misinterpreted this as ClamAV going commercial. :phew:
- huxley 11y agoI had my freakout about ClamAV back when I found out it is owned by Cisco: http://blog.clamav.net/2013/10/cisco-community-and-open-source.html http://blog.clamav.net/2013/10/cisco-community-and-open-sour...
- tptacek 11y agoI'm curious why anyone would run ClamAV on their Mac. Is this just for IT compliance?
- thaumaturgy 11y agoThere are a couple of in-the-wild nuisances for current versions of Mac OS X. We've encountered Mac Defender, Genieo, Trovi, and others on client systems. Due to the architecture of Mac OS X, manually finding and removing these things once they're installed can be difficult at best. There are plist files hidden all over the place that can be used to launch and relaunch processes and lots of other nooks and crannies for malware to hide. See for instance https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203987 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203987 and http://www.thesafemac.com/arg-identification/ http://www.thesafemac.com/arg-identification/
- chilldontkill 11y agoMacs gets malware too.
- ChristianGeek 11y agoTo the best of my knowledge, there has never been an example of Mac malware in the wild.
- coldtea 11y agoWhy the downvotes? He's right. The example links are trojans you have to click to install or proofs of concept, but neither of them ever got to any significant number of users. And it's not just about "Mac's smaller install base" either. Amiga and Atari had and even smaller install base (and no commercial interest at all for the malware) but there were tons of viruses for them. There were also several for Mac OS (pre X).
- DanBC 11y ago> There were also several for Mac OS (pre X) That's not none in the wild ever. HN can sometimes be a bit literal. (I didn't downvote parent and I've applied an upvote to correct it). But also click-to-run trojans are malware. They might not be self replicating; some aspects of OSX might limit the harm; but they are malware and they do exist.
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