Re: Free AV for Macs recommendation?

["Foss, Henry L." <fossh () SACREDHEART EDU>]

Sophos has a good free product, as well as Bitdefender.

We were in the same situation and then opted to get McAfee for $2 per seat.  They were the least expensive pay option 
we could find.

Thanks,
Hank Foss

On Jun 18, 2020, at 12:56 PM, Scantlin, Aaron J. <ScantlinA () missouri edu> wrote:


Using the free version for commercial use (aka protecting University systems or using it in remediation workflows) is 
prohibited FWIW.

Aaron J. Scantlin
Security Analyst, Division of IT
GSEC, GCFA, GNFA
University of Missouri - Columbia
(573) 884 - 7555
scantlina () missouri edu<mailto:scantlina () missouri edu>

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Cathy,
Though we have a paid solution here (McAfee), the Mac community in general now sees Malwarebytes as the best free 
solution for macOS. It's what I run on all my systems at home. The free version doesn't offer on-access scanning, but 
it can schedule scanning runs. It's multithreaded code, so it runs quite quickly, but you wouldn't want to run a scan 
when you're trying to do any other work. It does let you know about important updates, but it doesn't keep nagging you 
to buy it, at least not until you open its console.

Ric



Ric Getter
PCC Media Production/PCC-TV
Portland Community College - Sylvania
971-722-8036


On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 9:11 AM Ullman, Catherine <cende () buffalo edu<mailto:cende () buffalo edu>> wrote:
Good afternoon!

Like many institutions, we are balking at the cost of the SEP renewals and starting to think about some alternatives 
including no longer including students in our SEP renewal.  As a result, we’ll probably recommend Windows Defender for 
M$ systems, but we’d need a free option for students who use Macs.  Any recommendations for a free AV product for Mac 
out there?  Of course if anyone has any other feedback, we’d be open to hearing it as well.

Thank you in advance.

Best,
Cathy

Dr. Catherine J Ullman
Senior Information Security Forensic Analyst
Information Security Office
University at Buffalo
cende () buffalo edu<mailto:cende () buffalo edu>


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