Avast on Mac

:frowning: Avast rip off sites need to be shut down!

Ermā€¦ what?

Sorryā€¦I didnā€™t know it was a rogue website.

I saw: ā€œSupports all operating systems ā€“ Windows, Mac, Linux & other operating systemsā€ & was curious as to what other os avast! was available for.

I want my, I want my, I want my Avast Mac Version. Sorry for nagging but I have a serious feeling that this is a race against white & black hat programmers!

Avast for mac should be released This months so be patient.

7 more days until the end of the month and still no sign ???

Al968

could use it on my work only mini-mac tooooooo!!!

If its intel based it should work (I think that that what either igor or Vlk said)

Al968

It is a universal Binary (PowerPC and Intel)

6 More days :wink:

Go Alwil ;D

Al968

Oyā€¦ :stuck_out_tongue:

Here, read this while youā€™re waitingā€¦

http://www.apple.com/getamac/viruses.html

Correct me if Iā€™m wrong, but isnā€™t the only reason you would need antivirus software on a Mac would be if you were running Virtual PC for Windows? But then, wouldnā€™t you want a Windows version?

As I understand it, there is no possibility that viruses could transfer from the Virtual PC to your Mac. Right?

Though Iā€™m empathetic, I guess Iā€™m just not getting this.

i canā€™t understand it either why you need avast on a mac even though i have a mini-mac at home for my work-whatā€™s the purpose of it if whatā€™s in that article is true ??? ::slight_smile:

Thereā€™s a couple of tens of viruses for Mac out there. The reason thereā€™s magnitudes more for Windows is that itā€™s probably not worth the hassle (for the virus writers) to bother with the non-mainstream platform (suppose you want to write a virus - which platform will you choose? - one thatā€™s used by ~90% of users [Windows], or one thatā€™s used by 1% of users [OS X]?).

thanks Vlkā€¦still gonna put it on my work mini-macā€¦knowing it will be better with avast! on it like my two window computers are :slight_smile:

Thanks for the response Vlk. You know, that has been said about Linux too, and is greatly refuted as being incorrect (for both OS X and Linux).

There are many articles regarding this. Hereā€™s one of the best Iā€™ve seen:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/10/06/linux_vs_windows_viruses/

(I post this link primarily for others. It is certainly not news to you. :))

Edit: As I mentioned in my original post, if a person is running virtual Windows, wouldnā€™t they want the Windows version of avast?

No problems. avast does install and work both in Windows XP and Vista, both on virtual environmentā€¦
Hope this is an answer that youā€™ve waiting forā€¦

Thanks to the people at Alwil that made this truly possible and I know the MAC people will enjoy having a topnotch antivirus on there MAC.

Yes, that answers the biggest part of my question.

The other part is then why is there going to be a Mac version? If you read both of attachments to my posts, is it really needed on a Unix based OS such as OS X?

Similar question. Is an antivirus program needed on Kubuntu if your not running a mail server? (Uh, I guess we both know the answer to that one.)

If youā€™re running virtual Windows on a Mac, and using a windows version of avast, isnā€™t running a Mac version redundant?

Look, Iā€™m not trying to downplay new products from avast. Iā€™m a great fan of their products, and wish them success with anything they do. Just trying to learn hereā€¦

Malware can generally run equally well on Windows and Unix based systems (Linux, OS X etc.)

Itā€™s just that it is not doing very well (so far) on Unix based systems mainly because

  • most malware authors only target the mainstream (i.e. Windows)
  • non-Windows users are (statistically) more computer-knowledgable and donā€™t ā€œhelpā€ spreading malware that much (this is true for Linux - Iā€™m not so sure about OS X though :))

Think of an AV as insurance - the fact thereā€™s nothing going on TODAY doesnā€™t mean there wonā€™t be a big outbreak TOMORROW - and being ready for this can simply pay off.

Cheers
Vlk

Any clues on when is Avast for Mac coming out VlK

Thanks

Al968