ProtectMac AntiVirus


ProtectMac AntiVirus is a security product for Mac OS X, designed to keep you safe from viruses, worms, trojans and spyware. It uses many different techniques to detect malicious software on your Mac, complimented by an updating system that automatically delivers and installs incremental updates in the background to ensure that you stay on top of any security problem.
The ProtectMac AntiVirus application allows you to scan any area of your Mac or network, set up scheduled background scans, customize your installation, manage any threats that have been detected and displays a history of all actions performed by the software. Any file, folder or volume can be added to the view so as to make scanning easier.
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At the heart of the antivirus solution is a file-access scanner that is always running in the background in real-time, intercepting every file that is opened, closed and copied, any application that is run, any file that is downloaded from the internet or email attachment that is extracted. If a threat is discovered then access to the file is blocked and a warning dialog is displayed on the desktop.

With the ability to scan any device or location directly from Finder, as well as automatic scanning of DVDs, CDs, USB devices and dmg files as they are mounted, checking for threats on your Mac has never been easier!

Performance and security

We've spent a long time making sure that ProtectMac AntiVirus is optimized so that you get the best performance from your system without compromising its security. The product is based on Adaptive Intelligent Scanning (AIS): it learns which applications and files are important to you, which ones you use often, and makes sure that these files are always safe and given priority access.

Scanning for threats

There are many ways ProtectMac AntiVirus can scan for threats, some of these are performed automatically in the background whilst others are under your direct control.

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Types of scans:
  • Real-time file-access scans
  • Scheduled Scans
  • Automatic removable volume scans
  • User scans from the main application
  • Finder Contextual Menu scans
You can schedule scans of any area of your Mac or network to run in the background, either at regular intervals or at specific times, or even as soon as there has been a threat identity update. Removable volumes, too, can be automatically scanned as soon as they are mounted; both features help ensure that no part of your system or storage media can harbor hidden threats.

Scanning from Finder

The easiest way to perform a user scan of a file, folder or volume is to simply right-click on it in and select 'Scan With ProtectMac AntiVirus' from the contextual menu. A small semi-transparent window appears on the desktop displaying scanning progress.
Multiple, simultaneous scans can be started via Finder in this way, with each new scan being appended to the progress view and removed automatically as the scan completes.
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Automatic Updating

Given the speed with which threats can spread these days over the internet it is important that you receive frequent updates to combat any new and malicious attack.

ProtectMac AntiVirus checks for updates daily, downloading new threat identities and product updates automatically and installing them in the background without any user intervention or the need to restart your Mac.

As soon as a new threat identity is downloaded the Threat and Malware Scanner will start using it, so that any file accessed from then on will be scanned with the complete set of threat identities, including the new one.




Designed for Mac OS X
ProtectMac AntiVirus has been designed for Mac OS X, it is a universal binary and will run on both Intel and PPC-based Macs. It is Snow Leopard ready!

System Requirements:
  • Mac OS X 10.4.7 or later
  • Intel & PPC Macs
  • 256MB RAM
  • 100MB Disk space


Super fast scan speeds
Watch how fast ProtectMac AntiVirus scans disks and folders for threats - run the main application, start a scan and open the Information window. What's more, scan the same area again and watch it go even faster.

Threat Detection
ProtectMac AntiVirus uses a superset of the same threat and malware detection engine that Apple use in Mac OS X Server, Clam AV. The scanning technology scans for both Mac and non-Mac viruses, worms, Trojans and spyware.

Authorized Access Only
Key features and preferences can only be accessed if you have Admin rights. However, even if you are logged into your Mac as an Administrator, for added security some of the features have an additional level of authorization that require you to authenticate before allowing you to use them, such as modifying the file-access scanner, adding an item to the FileSafe list or stopping a scheduled scan.

Additional Information

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