- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Date added: August 27, 2009
- Total Downloads: 133,303
- Downloads last week: 1,689
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 57 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Jason Parker on September 09, 2009
iAntiVirus is a free app that will scan for Mac-specific viruses and malicious software, both on your hard-drive and during real-time Web browsing. You access iAntiVirus through a menu bar icon, and the app can scan your Mac for current infections, with either a Quick Scan, a Normal Scan (longer but still relatively quick), or a Custom Scan of specific areas. You can set iAntiVirus to protect your Mac in the background (with a relatively modest resource footprint), and you can also schedule both scans and app updates every week, every day, or every other day, to make sure that you're protecting your computer using the most current virus definitions. Some anti-virus applications will scan for PC-specific threats as well (to make sure you're not passing on malicious software to PC users you interact with), but iAntiVirus is able to maintain a lower profile on your system by focusing on Mac threats only.
Arguably, the best anti-virus software for the Mac is already on your machine: the Mac OS itself, with its secure, Unix-based architecture and relative obscurity compared to Windows. There has never been a major virus or malicious software outbreak for OS X, so any antivirus app is of questionable usefulness--but iAntiVirus can provide some free peace of mind for anyone worried about future threats.
Publisher's description
From PC Tools :With iAntiVirus you are protected against the most nefarious cyber-threats attempting to gain access to your Mac and personal information. iAntiVirus provides free real-time protection and comprehensive system scanning to ensure your Mac remains safe and virus free. The iAntiVirus database has been designed from the ground up to detect and remove Mac specific threats. This enables a high level of protection whilst keeping memory footprint and resource usage at a minimum.
The iAntiVirus database is not cluttered with signatures for Windows specific threats which your Mac is already immune against. This means you get the protection you need without the extra resource required to process the threats that are not relevant your Mac. iAntiVirus protects you against Mac specific viruses, worms, Trojans, keyloggers, dialers, spyware, adware, toolbars and hijackers like the Mac DNS-Changer trojan. Version 1.2 improves performance and fixes conflict with Time Machine.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.4 stars out of 57 votes
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Version: iAntiVirus Free Edition 1.36
Pros: Runns in the background,
Cons: I have not yet find any error about this program
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Version: iAntiVirus Free Edition 1.36
"A great interim AV application"
Pros: Free; simple to use; good at first level checking; better than nothing.
Cons: Not comprehensive in its checking but you must pay for that kind of safety.
Summary: I usually use my university's Sophos AV Client which I am allowed to download to my home iMac for free. The current client offered by the university doesn't work with Snow Leopard (yet). I have found iAntiVirus fits my current needs for primary prot... read more >>
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Version: iAntiVirus Free Edition 1.36
"OK for basic MAC only checking"
Pros: Easy to use; Runs in background; Automatic updates; Free
Cons: Not a comprehensive tool for checking attachment or windows-based viruses that pass through MAC computers. This software missed a virus that both generated spam from MAC email and sent windows-infected attachments.
Summary: Removed from my MAC and installed Intego pay software for comprehensive virus monitoring and repair for my MAC AND iPhone.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: iAntiVirus Free Edition 1.36
"A buggy and voluble performance."
Pros: It is fast, simple to use and offers a version free of charge.
I have no way of telling if it is accurate, but seemed to work very thoroughly while engaged in the "Normal" scan setting.Cons: Hogs the CPU sometimes, from a demure 15% to a shameless 80%.
Frequently did not load at log-in.
Failed to open when application double-clicked.
Refused to perform manual virus-database updating.
Real-time protection failed to be activated.Summary: I really wanted to like this product, being free, simple to use and nicely designed.
But in the end its random performance defeated me.
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Version: iAntiVirus Free Edition 1.36
Pros: It works quietly in the background and as far as I can tell has not detected any virus problems on my computer.
Cons: No problems
Summary: Great App so far
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