About the App
- ClamXav Publisher's Description. ClamXav is a free virus checker for Mac OS X. It uses the tried, tested and very popular ClamAV open source antivirus engine as a back end. Back in the days before OS X, the number of viruses which attacked Macintosh users totalled somewhere between about 60 and 80. Today, the number of viruses actively attacking OS X users is.NONE!
- ClamXav 2 has the starkest interface of all the Mac antivirus programs we reviewed. It looks like another window of the Mac OS X's Finder; files being scanned are listed in alternating blue.
- App name: clamav
- App description: Anti-virus software
- App website: http://www.clamav.net/
Clamav For Mac Os X64
ClamXav, the free virus scanner for Mac OS X, received a fresh update today featuring a bunch of tweaks and fixes, and a new ClamAV engine (the heart and soul of the app that helps it keep your Mac. Thanks to Christoph Murauer for an excellent guide to installing ClamAV 0.97.3 on Mac OS X! Check out Christoph's ClamAV 0.97.3 install guide here. Thanks to all of our ClamAV community contributors on their documentation, if you'd like to contribute some documentation, please feel free to contact me at joel@snort.org.
Install the App
- Press
Command+Spaceand type Terminal and press enter/return key. - Run in Terminal app:
ruby -e '$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)' < /dev/null 2> /dev/null
and press enter/return key.
If the screen prompts you to enter a password, please enter your Mac's user password to continue. When you type the password, it won't be displayed on screen, but the system would accept it. So just type your password and press ENTER/RETURN key. Then wait for the command to finish. - Run:
brew install clamav
Done! You can now use clamav.