![]() ![]() A pro version for business and commercial uses is offered at $29.95 with dedicated support for the software. The iAntiVirus software is a free download for home users available at. iAntiVirus Offers a Mac-like Antivirus Experience The software offers real-time protection, places infected files in quarantine, provides smart updates and, when running in the background, has a fairly low resource footprint. IAntiVirus scans your Mac for viruses, trojans and spy ware that is Macintosh-specific. The new iAntiVirus from PCTools takes a different approach. Most Mac antivirus software is primarily concerned with detecting PC and Windows infections and disinfecting your Mac, which has a potential to spread PC infections indirectly to Windows users via email and file transfer. However the chances of your machine becoming infected is relatively small – for now. Still, it seems every couple of weeks a new virus or trojan pops up out of the woodwork with the ability to potentially damage your Mac. There are thousands of threats to Windows PCs. The latest counts reveal somewhere in the neighborhood of 90 known Mac threats. Computers will always have vulnerabilities. Look, as safe and stable as your Mac is, it’s a computer. So the question remains, is your Mac really vulnerable to virus infection? Well, yes and no. Blasphemy! Is Your Mac Safe from Viral Threats? All of this Apple virus talk has spawned more buzz than the recent sighting of Obama with a Microsoft Zune. It turns out that the Apple Knowledge Base article from which Krebs gathered this information was somewhat out of date, yet even Apple went into spin control mode and the “old” Knowledge Base article disappeared from the Apple Support site. It started with Washington Post Blogger Brian Krebs noting that, due to alleged virus potential, even Apple is telling Mac users to start running antivirus software. There’s been a lot of trash talk and speculation circulating in recent weeks about Mac OS X’s vulnerability to viral threats. ![]()
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