Re: Free AV for Macs recommendation?

["Andregg, Bryan Courtney" <bryan.andregg () UNC EDU>]

The free version of Malware Bytes has T&C’s that limit its use to personal machines and they may be inclined to see a 
large number of installs tied to your network or accounts tied to your domain as institutional use.

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Bryan C. Andregg
IT Security & Systems Manager
Instructional & Information Systems
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
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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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