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Avast Antivirus Mac Edition has the same ICSA Certified scan engine as all Avast antivirus products, offering protection against the latest and legacy virus, malware, Trojan horse, and spyware risks. Virus definitions and scanning capabilities are updated often (sometime several times per day, depending on current threats), so you can rest assured that your Mac is protected at all times. All you need to do is install, configure once (if you want to change the default settings) and forget about malware being a problem.
Some key features of Avast Antivirus Mac Edition includes: full on-access scanning--which scans files as you access them, to make sure they are safe from infection; on-demand scanning--for scheduled or ad-hoc scans of your system volumes; mail protection-integrated mail protection can stop infection at one of the most vulnerable access vectors; Virus Chest--a safe storage place for infected or suspected files, where they cannot harm your system; fully automatic updating of the program and virus definitions; and full scanner preference control
Under-the-hood technology features include: native execution of virus database on Intel platform Macs, with fast emulation on PowerPC of assembler-level parts; multi-threaded scanning daemon; industry leading unpacker support (for archives); able to upgrade the definitions database, even while doing background scanning; application itself multi-threaded; fail-safe updating architecture (if the daemon fails to do an update, the main application will do it instead); kernel extension architecture for capturing after-close events on modified files; optimized software architecture, including non-blocking system calls; and the program is designed for speed and non-degraded system performance.What's new in this version:
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
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Usage problems - Version: 2.74, 6/18/2009 02:26PM PST
(1 of 1 users found this comment useful)
MaoNet2. Takes alot of CPU
3. Can't run i background (the program need to be "started" in window mode)
3. Can't understand what to do with the scanned files that get err 13 or other errors (alot of files, and also ordinary systemfiles, they say no permission), and even if you just ignore them they come up on the next scan again
4. Even scans it's own program (that is good) but put the application in list does not get a good expression
5. No help what so ever what to do with files in lists
6. When you get a virus, trojan, or other, you don't get a list what to do to remove it. No cleaning. No link. You can email it to avast, but not with any questions. You can delete, carantene (most trojans, worms needs more than delete to remove it from your system). I thought cleaning was included.
7. I have parallell desctop (bootcamp) with an WinXP and installed professional edition of avast (antivirus for mac + pc). Okey it warns that a trojan starts when i use IE, but it does not get an message to clean it.
Okey i'm not a professional, but I can't recommend people to buy this. I have already bought it but it goes into the trash for the mac part.
Worst Software EVER - Version: 2.74, 8/21/2008 07:26PM PST
(2 of 2 users found this comment useful)
Hasan EdainI have had nothing but problems from the moment of installation.
I bought it based on the reviews, boy was I wrong!
It causes mail to crash at least twice a day, forcing me to rebuild my entire mail database at a cost of several minutes.
It eats up a huge amount of CPU.
It is poorly configureable.
There is no way to easily turn it off or uninstall it.
I can only minimize, not hide it, and the scans are incredibly slow.
All I want now is to get it off my computer and to warn everyone from ever giving these people money for this awful product.
But that's changed now that I upgraded to OS X 10.6.1.
Now I cannot quit or even Force-Quit avast. Attempting to present the issue to the avast forum, I find at least one other user -- in the Netherlands -- is equally frustrated by persistent avast despite all ordinary efforts to shut it down, quit and force-quit.
Until their software team figures out that some of us are troubled by quirks not seen until OS X 10.6.x and unable to troubleshoot by isolating avast, beware of installing it.
And if installed, check their forum before upgrading to OS X 10.6.