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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.
I hope you like and use ClamXav a lot and that it helps keep you and your friends/colleagues virus-free. Although I'm providing ClamXav for free, I am increasingly spending more and more time developing it and would really appreciate if you would consider making a donation please. All donations (no matter how small) are gratefully received and would be a huge incentive to help me work on future versions of ClamXav, but more importantly
I hope you like and use ClamXav a lot and that it helps keep you and your friends/colleagues virus-free. Although I'm providing ClamXav for free, I am increasingly spending more and more time developing it and would really appreciate if you would consider making a donation please. All donations (no matter how small) are gratefully received and would be a huge incentive to help me work on future versions of ClamXav, but more importantly
What's New
Version 2.2.2:
- Updated ClamAV engine to 0.97.2
- Fixed an issue where virus definition files may end up with wrong permissions after an update
- Fixed window placement bug on Mac OS X 10.7
- Fixed Spanish translation error in the scheduling preference pane
- Updated engine remover for LaunchAgents
- Mac OS X 10.4 users should NOT download this update
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
VirusBarrier X...+28
Internet Secur...+24 
Sophos Anti-Vi...+14 
MacKeeper+13 
VirusBarrier E...+12 
AppDefender+1
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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.
I hope you like and use ClamXav a lot and that it helps keep you and your friends/colleagues virus-free. Although I'm providing ClamXav for free, I am increasingly spending more and more time developing it and would really appreciate if you would consider making a donation please. All donations (no matter how small) are gratefully received and would be a huge incentive to help me work on future versions of ClamXav, but more importantly I rely on donations to pay for my bandwidth costs. Please consider it, see the ClamXav homepage, click the 'More Information' link above on this page.
I hope you like and use ClamXav a lot and that it helps keep you and your friends/colleagues virus-free. Although I'm providing ClamXav for free, I am increasingly spending more and more time developing it and would really appreciate if you would consider making a donation please. All donations (no matter how small) are gratefully received and would be a huge incentive to help me work on future versions of ClamXav, but more importantly I rely on donations to pay for my bandwidth costs. Please consider it, see the ClamXav homepage, click the 'More Information' link above on this page.
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centzon reviewed on 26 Jan 2012
Love the interface, and doesn't unduly slow down my April 2008 MacbookPro.
Sterlingjbadon reviewed on 17 Jan 2012
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FeelaWAY reviewed on 11 Jan 2012
The first thing I noticed is that running a scan renders my computer useless. ClamXav slowed my computer way down, and that's saying a lot because my MacBook Pro is new. Frustrating, to say the least.
Secondly, I decided to add some exclusions to see if that helped ease the lag caused by this software. After running a few more scans, I found that ClamAV is ignoring all exclusions that I have put into the exclusion list.
For example:
.jpg
.jpg$ (as a regex)
These exclusions are "enabled," but I dont understand why then it still scans every singe .JPG file on my computer. Is this a bug? I'm not sure. But I do know its very annoying.
Thirdly, I found ClamXav's user interface to be confusing and more of a hassle to deal with than what I initially expected. I'm sorry to say it, but this software is bad. So I uninstalled.
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Xente reviewed on 12 Dec 2011
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Texspleen reviewed on 18 Oct 2011
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xXAkumuXx reviewed on 28 Sep 2011
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Please update 'REQUIREMENTS'...
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Diaa reviewed on 23 Aug 2011
But the only thing is that i noticed were, it use a huge amount of CPU usage and my macbook pro start gets hot and the fans gets spinning faster in order to balance the temperature.
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Here's the Alert text: "Please download the latest virus definitions before continuing." This is presented with 2 buttons: Quit & Update Now, each of which leads you back to the other in an unending loop.
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The world won't end in the meantime.
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"Probably best to wait for an update.
The world won't end in the meantime."
How can ya be sure that the world won't end?
Fukushima nuclear radiation poisoning the world,
Wars in the middle and near east,
World's financial/economic systems coming apart.
Civil unrest in more and more countries,
Human nastiness everywhere,
and ad infinitum.
Maybe it's time for the world to come to an end, hmmm?
That would be poetic justice, I'd say!
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Ah...ok. Not productive.
My System: 10.4.11/PPC (G4 MDD 1,25 Dual)
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When start this app (ClamXav 2.0.7) the window will appear: "Alert. Please download the latest virus definitions before continuing." When I press "Update Now.", the app will tell that "Definitions already up-to-date", and all starts all over again with "Alert. Please download the latest virus definitions before continuing". So endless loop...
The similar (not to say exactly the same) problem started with previous version where choosing "Update Definitions" gave "Starting update… Update Finished", but actually the database wasn't updated, and a reason "sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified" was displayed.
Any ideas how to get this great app work again?
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every time it quits unexpectedly after a few mins into scanning
anyone else had this prob?
can anyone advise please
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http://markallan.co.uk/BB/viewforum.php?f=1
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anyone advise please
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What's the URL of that post?
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BTW - my problem is resolved. It appears it was a firewall problem in the hotel I was staying at and working out of. When I returned home, all worked fine.
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However,i've got the problem that it'll scan my removable disks automatically even though i have the option ''scan inserted disks'' unchecked,this adds about 60% cpu usage,so it just becomes kinda hot there...
Anyone here could help me out,hopefully?thanks you guys
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http://markallan.co.uk/BB/viewforum.php?f=1
This behaviour is reproducible.
First time ever installation of ClamXav, Mac OS X 10.6.3, all updates.
Anyone else?
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If the way that you try to start Sentry is additional to (or different from) the method that's offered within ClamXav, then you may expect a problem.
Have you posted to the ClamXav forum?
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I've been using ClamXav for quite a while now, without difficulty. I am running OS 10.5.8. on an intel core duo iMac.
After upgrading to 2.0.5 I am unable to "update virus definitions."
I get this:
ClamAV update process started at Mon Dec 21 08:27:52 2009
Connecting via 127.0.0.1
main.cvd is up to date (version: 51, sigs: 545035, f-level: 42, builder: sven)
Connecting via 127.0.0.1
connect_error: getsockopt(SO_ERROR): fd=4 error=61: Connection refused
Can't connect to port 8228 of host 127.0.0.1 (IP: 127.0.0.1)
WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-10177.cdiff from database.clamav.net
ERROR: chdir_tmp: Can't create directory ./clamav-876cea3294db713c6c53a6d8f9a39b85
WARNING: Incremental update failed, trying to download daily.cvd
connect_error: getsockopt(SO_ERROR): fd=4 error=61: Connection refused
Can't connect to port 8228 of host 127.0.0.1 (IP: 127.0.0.1)
ERROR: Can't download daily.cvd from database.clamav.net
Giving up on database.clamav.net...
Update failed. Your network may be down or none of the mirrors listed in /usr/local/clamXav/etc/freshclam.conf is working. Check http://www.clamav.net/support/mirror-problem for possible reasons.
I've tried uninstalling and going back to the older version.... no change....anyone help?
I also went to the clamX site, but didn't get any ideas from there.
Thanks;
JB
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I did the uninstall that comes with the package and that uninstalled the engine. After a re-install (with a new engine) all works as it should.
I do have to say that I love this app and kudos to the developer.
I have a PC for work and the virus detection on that one is just so boring.
Clam stuff like this is just such a hoot.... "I will quarantine infected files
..." Shades of "Hal." LOL!
Now it won't scan and gives me an error message "immediately" to a folder that no longer exists relating to where viruses had been kept with 2.01.
The Message is: ERROR: '"/Volumes/OneTouch4/Virus for ClamXav/"' doesn't exist or is not a directory
It then shuts down...
Thoughts anyone?
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Solution (lucky guess, worked for me): unistall the program completely - I used AppCleaner for that. Re-install and it should work.
My guess, there's some incompatibility in the old plist.
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http://www.unmetered.org.uk/mmedia/ClamXav_2.0.1.dmg
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FeelaWAY rated on 11 Jan 2012
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