avast! for Mac

avast! antivirus Mac Edition provides a complete enterprise-class anti-malware solution for the Mac platform that protects users valuable and ireplacable data and programs.While also protecting Mac users direct data and programs, avast! Mac Edition also helps to prevent the passing on of virus infectors to their PC using friends and colleagues, by detecting such threats, that might be innocuous on the Mac platform, but can be passed on to other platforms in heterogeneous environments.

avast! comes as a universal binary, deployable against both PowerPC and Intel platforms of the Mac, running OS X 10.4 or later.

avast! provides a central scanning service with adjustable priority and remote accessibility, with access via TCP or UNIX sockets.The product's modular architecture means the GUI can adopt new features provided by the scanning daemon architecture automatically.

Mac Edition allows auto run after start, on-demand, on access and mail antivirus protection.