Alright, we all know Macs don't get viruses, and this is true enough. I was running my new intel iMac for months before I found about ClamXav and I had no problems at all with viruses or spyware. So naturally paying for an anti-virus program that would probably never see much action didn't seem like a smart investment(currently the only commercial big name virus scanner for Mac is Norton). Then I found out about ClamXav.

As as the only free scanner for Mac, this is probably and essential application for anyone who owns an Apple computer as a "just in case" to fall back on if somehow your system might become infected (highly unlikely).

On top of the regular scanning engin, there is also a realtime scanner you can use to watch any folder you want on your computer and make sure nothing infectious ends up in them. I would highly recomend selecting the watched folder as one you use to download most of your stuff from the internet into.

Once again, this is a must have program for any Mac that MIGHT have the chance it could get infected.