Enterprise Mac Security by Charles Edge & Daniel O’Donnell

Author:Charles Edge & Daniel O’Donnell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Apress, Berkeley, CA

Norton for Mac is available at http://www.norton.com/mac . Norton Antivirus, due to its popularity in the Windows community, is a well-known and well-documented antivirus application. Let’s explore a couple lesser-known antiviral suites that pack some powerful features.

ClamXav

ClamXav is an antivirus application that is amongst the easiest to use. It is available at www.clamxav.com in a variety of languages. Although ClamXav lacks many of the features available in some of the commercial packages that are centrally manageable, it is a great and accessible tool that can be used as a first-line-of-defense warning system against malware. The underlying code is actually developed and distributed by the open source community as part of the ClamAV project. The GUI tools that ClamXav brings to the table can then be distributed to large numbers of users to help administrators discover virus outbreaks and perform quarantine measures on infected files.

ClamXav will not clean files; it only scans and quarantines them, which can be helpful on a machine with limited infection. However, on a system where a virus or worm has been self-propagating itself for days, weeks, and even years, this could mean that every single file that the user has ends up getting quarantined. This can cause hours of lost time in rebuilding a file structure to its original hierarchy. ClamXav also does not provide scanning for incoming e-mail, which, as previously discussed, is the primary method for distributing viruses on any computer platform.

Note

ClamXav should not be run on Mac OS X Server.

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