McAfee Virex now compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger

I work in a mixed corporate environment as a developer. I frequently download Windoze files to my Mac and then install them on PC. I need AV to ensure that I don't infect the Windoze boxes - mine especially. I am urked that McAfee have made their product a 5 pack only - its like they don't want to sell them as they make it hard and expensive to buy the product. I rely on ClamAV on my personal email server and that works quite well but is not perfect. I rely on an older verson of Virex on my Tiger boxes. I await a review of 7.7.

I'll third the ClamAV. In fact, we use it on both of our xservers and G5 Raid company wide -- we house some 100 mac users and some 200+ pc users -- ClamAV has never failed, and it's free. Why pay for something that doesn't keep up with the times when you can have something for free that works great all the time, on a server and a desktop level?

oh my gawwkk! Who need anti-virus for Mac? It's like 1 out of 1 million get virus.

I second mapin's comment. I switched from Virex to ClamXav right before McAfee's "we're Tiger-friendly now" PR. No thanks. ClamXav is better and free.

Just use ClamXAV. IT's free, it scans for windows viruses, it relies on clamx (an popular unix av engine), and you can customize it to watch particular folders for you (such as your mail inbox folder). There are no OS X viruses (yet), but at least you won't be spreading windows viruses to PC users.

If I were to get anti-virus protection, it would not be from McAfee; I bought the Windows version for my father's laptop, before I got him his iBook, and one of its "updates" Borked his machine up so bad that it'd freeze on the startup screen. Useless.

Cause I need virus protection...

Im using VirusBarrier and have been very happy with it, is there a OS X Anti-Virus software that will also scan for all windows viruses?

computer virus for a mac... your kidding me!

Virex has given me nothing but trouble. My mother-in-law insisted on installing it on her iMac G5 after I repeatedly told her there was no need for it. She is the most paranoid computer user I know of, and she is convinced that the first virus released for the Mac this decade will find her. No sooner had she installed Virex than iChatAV stopped working. The video would start out fine, but drop to 1 FPS after only a few seconds, making the connection useless. Long story short - I spent 3 hours on message boards and Google looking for the problem. The culprit? Virex still had a process running that interfered with iChatAV. And this was after I had uninstalled Virex and restarted!