{"id":474,"date":"2014-02-01T09:32:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T17:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/?p=474"},"modified":"2014-12-11T10:50:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T18:50:23","slug":"mac-anti-virus-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/2014\/02\/01\/mac-anti-virus-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac Anti-Virus Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, malware threats exist for Apple&#8217;s Mac OS X computers. Generally there&#8217;s far less risk than for PCs, but knowing how to stay protected remains important. CNET&#8217;s MacFixIt recently revisited this topic, in an article, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/reviews.cnet.com\/8301-13727_7-57618186-263\/popular-antivirus-tools-for-os-x-tested-again\" title=\"CNET link\" target=\"_blank\">Popular antivirus tools for OS X tested, again<\/a>,&#8221; citing a researchers&#8217; testing of these top tools (in no particular order):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>avast! Free Antivirus 8.0<\/li>\n<li>F-Secure Anti-virus for Mac<\/li>\n<li>VirusBarrier 10.7.8<\/li>\n<li>Avira Mac Security 2.0.1.105<\/li>\n<li>ESET Cybersecurity 5.0.115.0<\/li>\n<li>Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac 9.0.6<\/li>\n<li>Kaspersky Security 14.0.1.46<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Web Light 6.0.6<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>Worthy of note here is that often acclaimed anti-malware tools such as the open source ClamXav, McAfee, and Symantec&#8217;s iAntivirus, did not make it into this top tier set. Therefore, if you are looking for an anti-malware package to use, you might consider weighing those which perform well in tests like this, against the additional features they offer and recommendations by those who have used them.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, malware threats exist for Apple&#8217;s Mac OS X computers. Generally there&#8217;s far less risk than for PCs, but knowing how to stay protected remains important. CNET&#8217;s MacFixIt recently revisited this topic, in an article, &#8220;Popular antivirus tools for OS X tested, again,&#8221; citing a researchers&#8217; testing of these top tools (in no particular order): [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","tag-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}