(currently free now).Īll things being equal on OS X and Windows now, it just makes sense to consider Windows on your Mac or buy a Windows PC the next time around because you'll have a larger selection of software (including more advanced anti-malware/system protection OS X lacks) and a much larger selection of hardware choices from many PC vendors. Supported by a company that is spending the money (from sales of Windows anti-malware) to develop a install base for a future commercial version of a anti-malware solution for Mac's.
So now it's recommended one install a more robust always on anti-malware for OS X. However ClamXav uses Windows malware definitions from ClamWin and Clam (Linux) which are shared resources, the ClamXav fellow doesn't have the resources to stay on top of the explosion of Mac based malware. So at that time, a simple, run as you need to scanner (like ClamXav) for Windows files was all that was required on OS X. The thinking was that since a Mac can act like a Typhoid Mary (pass infected files but not be infected itself) and the mis-belief was "Mac's don't get malware" would tend to let Windows users let their guard down and not scan the files from a Mac. Most Windows users run a anti-malware, so files coming into their machines usually would be scanned.
It was recommended at one time because the amount of OS X based malware was nil and we only needed to focus on identifying the rare occurrence of malware on Windows files (don't affect OS X) before using them (because of corruption) or passing it onto other Windows users.
The detection rates for ClamXav isn't as good as the commercial versions.
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