Re: Free AV for Macs recommendation?

[Ric Getter <ric.getter () PCC EDU>]

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> wrote:

> Good afternoon!
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> 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.
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> Thank you in advance.
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> Best,
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> Cathy
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> Dr. Catherine J Ullman
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> Senior Information Security Forensic Analyst
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> Information Security Office
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> University at Buffalo
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> cende () buffalo edu
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