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Ironically, I had just deleted ClamXAV 2 from my system because of its terrible performance - extremely long delays doing basic things. I shall not be converting to ClamXAV 3 and its subscription-only model. I guess Mark Allan doesn't read here to see how much we love subscription software. How dare it reach into our computers and take control in this fashion? Is there any alternative other than to uninstall it? Is it even possible to uninstall it? Thanks for any insights. Worse, trying to turn these premium "features" off in the preferences settings does not actually turn them off but, instead, merely changed the menu bar icon to an alarming orange color with the warning " computer is vulnerable. However, despite several warning emails from Sophos about the end of the trial - and the offer to sell a subscription - now that the period is over, Sophos has not reverted to its prior functions. I expected all of this bizarre false-positive activity to go away when the "free trial" ended.
#ANTIVIRUS FOR OLDER MAC SOFTWARE#
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#ANTIVIRUS FOR OLDER MAC INSTALL#
A month ago, Sophos simply by fiat "upgraded" my basic install to "premium. It's only got 9 ratings - the average is 5 stars. If it works as seamlessly and effectively as the Mac app, I'll be very pleased. The setup instructions were concise and easy to follow. I believe their site indicates Avast v I downloaded it and bought the premium subscription 1 year, which has a 1-month trial. The drive image I downloaded wouldn't install. Does anyone know which version was the last to support If it is, I couldn't find an available version on their Web site. Last month I was looking for a version of MalwareBytes that would run on Snow Leopard, and couldn't find any info on their site. You should be able to run an anti-virus app on a newer Mac to examine the old system's drive e. I consider this more important than any anti-virus software.

It has not received any security updates for years from Apple.
#ANTIVIRUS FOR OLDER MAC MAC OS X#
I am going to hazard a guess that one of the recent macOS updates or security updates relating to Intel's botched microcode design upset something.Īnyone know of an antivirus or anti-malware product that would work on Snow Leopard? I've got an old laptop with Mac OS X Ric Ford MacInTouch. I had always viewed Sophos as having low resource overhead. Immediately, I noticed a return to the normal, fast speeds I had been used to for years, and this happy result has endured for three days. I finally got around to disabling Sophos-a misnomer because you cannot disable it there are processes that won't die. I tried the usual troubleshooting steps of orderly elimination of extensions, etc. I use Safari but was able to replicate this effect with Chrome. Sometimes the loads would stall for moments and then load sometimes the stalls were interminable. However, recently I began to have very slow page loads with certain sites, including especially Facebook.
