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.

On his website, he asks users to note that, “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. “I hope you like and use ClamXav a lot and that it helps keep you and your friends/colleagues virus-free,” Mark adds. Firstly, there's no guarantee that we Mac users will continue to enjoy the status quo, but more importantly, the majority of the computing world use machines running MS Windows, for which an enormous quantity of viruses exist, so we must be vigilant in checking the files we pass on to our friends and colleagues etc,” the developer explains. “Today, the number of viruses actively attacking OS X users is.NONE! However, this doesn't mean we should get complacent about checking incoming email attachments or web downloads, for two reasons. “Back in the days before OS X, the number of viruses which attacked Macintosh users totaled somewhere between about 60 and 80,” Mark Allan () says. There’s malware targeting Macs as well, and ClamXav will find those too, just as efficiently, according to Mark Allan, the developer of ClamXav.

Coupled with Kasperski’s recent release of its Anti-Virus solution for Mac OS X, and now an updated ClamXav virus checker on the loose, we’d say there is little time left before Apple can no longer rub security in Microsoft’s face.Ī free virus checker for users of an Apple Macintosh, ClamXav aims not to secure Macs, but to keep them from becoming carriers of a virus that might eventually end up on a Windows machine. There has been an awful lot of security talk lately, concerning both the iPhone and the Mac.

Clamxav download free version