ClamXAV
Despite being one of the strongest and most secure operating systems, Mac is not immune to attacks by malicious software. Even if you have a Mac, you should have an antivirus installed on your computer to protect it from external threats.
ClamXav has a great user interface that uses an open-source antivirus engine called ClamAV. UNIX users will be well acquainted with this tool that you operate via the command line. The program can run passively or actively and also lets you scan the entire hard drive or just a particular directory.
If you receive a lot of emails from users who run Windows or download applications for that operating system, ClamXav can scan them for viruses. You can also program it to do regular scans and monitor certain folders that may be more vulnerable to possible virus or malware infections.
ClamXav has a great user interface that uses an open-source antivirus engine called ClamAV. UNIX users will be well acquainted with this tool that you operate via the command line. The program can run passively or actively and also lets you scan the entire hard drive or just a particular directory.
If you receive a lot of emails from users who run Windows or download applications for that operating system, ClamXav can scan them for viruses. You can also program it to do regular scans and monitor certain folders that may be more vulnerable to possible virus or malware infections.
Could it be the ClamXav was installed under a different method
as described in the web site; & Uninstaller script can't go there?
Since the notations you cite from the system log indicate the
path is certainly in Terminal or perhaps accessed via a booted
single-user mode to attempt to disengage or change what is
going on inside the Mac OS X system, there must be another
way to attack this issue within the machine's Terminal.
Of course, since I do not know the Terminal well or have more
than a passing awareness of some of its features, I am of little
to no help in this part of the technical resolution.
Was there a contact email, or reference to any kind of similar
issue/problem noted in their user forum, link in previous post?
Unfortunately, I am probably not the one to do it! There was a time
that I'd have gone rather far into a crash-course to learn answers
to user problems in online forums, ones I never experienced. But
I don't have the undivided time to expand my own horizons, to help.
I also do not have the time to experiment with my Macs as before.
And I have things to do and people to see; actually, I have to take
someone else around to do those things - while I get to wait...
{However, *one answer may be to perform an 'Archive & Install'* &
update the system; the one catch may be a new system may try to
import the bits you can't remove from the old User files, if the option
in Archive & Install (to save users and settings) is chosen. So, that
would mean more work to restore a working system as it once had,
less the files related to ClamXav you can't be rid of presently.}
Good luck & happy computing! 🙂
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as described in the web site; & Uninstaller script can't go there?
Since the notations you cite from the system log indicate the
path is certainly in Terminal or perhaps accessed via a booted
single-user mode to attempt to disengage or change what is
going on inside the Mac OS X system, there must be another
way to attack this issue within the machine's Terminal.
Of course, since I do not know the Terminal well or have more
than a passing awareness of some of its features, I am of little
to no help in this part of the technical resolution.
Was there a contact email, or reference to any kind of similar
issue/problem noted in their user forum, link in previous post?
Unfortunately, I am probably not the one to do it! There was a time
that I'd have gone rather far into a crash-course to learn answers
to user problems in online forums, ones I never experienced. But
I don't have the undivided time to expand my own horizons, to help.
I also do not have the time to experiment with my Macs as before.
And I have things to do and people to see; actually, I have to take
someone else around to do those things - while I get to wait...
{However, *one answer may be to perform an 'Archive & Install'* &
update the system; the one catch may be a new system may try to
import the bits you can't remove from the old User files, if the option
in Archive & Install (to save users and settings) is chosen. So, that
would mean more work to restore a working system as it once had,
less the files related to ClamXav you can't be rid of presently.}
Good luck & happy computing! 🙂
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Jan 5, 2011 2:29 PM
Clamxav Download
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