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Other => General Topics => Topic started by: MilosM3 on February 25, 2007, 08:34:25 PM
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I have been using Avast since 2005 on all my home PCs and Laptop
and I absolutely LOVE it. Nice, save, fast and compact.
Not like the resource hogs from Norton or McAfee.
I am ready to buy Macintosh MacBook Pro next week and would like to
use Avast on my new Mac laptop.
Is there Avast Home edition for Mac? I could not find anything
on Avast web page.
If so, can you please direct me to URL were I can download it?
Thank you very much in advance.
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A version of avast for Mac is coming soon.
We're in the process of finishing the last details.
Thanks
Vlk
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hey vik my friend :)
do you know what the timeframe is on the avast! for the mac-use a mac for work only at home and would love to have the best!on it also :D
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Avast for mac is still in beta. Vlk can tell you more
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of course kyle -i know you are also going to use it on that piece of apple of yours also ::)
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A lot of people have been watting for this Avast for Macs ;D
@drhayden1
I was looking at your machine description(signature) that looks like quite a good machine ::)
Specially the Vista Ultimate, I though that only Bill Gates could buy it because its so expensive ;D
Al968
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you don't have to shot the dog...i got vista and the ultimate came on the machine when i got it :o ::)
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;D
OK
Al968
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The reason why I asked about URL for download was - that this thread came up almost 1 year ago and the answer was the same :-\
"A version of avast for Mac is coming soon."....
That's why I thought it would be out for now.
Vlku, can you tell us at least approximate ETA so we know what 'soon' means this time ? ;)
If it is days/weeks - for many it will be worth waiting it if is months or quarters - perhaps we should look for other solution - at least for the time being.
Thanks in advance.
A version of avast for Mac is coming soon.
We're in the process of finishing the last details.
Thanks
Vlk
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The release date is anticipated for March 2007.
Hope this helps,
Vlk
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March of 2007? I dig that 8)
The release date is anticipated for March 2007.
Hope this helps,
Vlk
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And I will be looking forward to using Avast! on Mac just for the relief of my old windozes paranoia. ;D
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meinrosebud-i don't care for vista much either-i have the vista ultimate piece of crap on my quad processor desktop and i am having some issues with it and i have a mac for work only and i am seriously thinking of throwing the quad out the window(NOT REALLY)because of the vista crap and getting a mac for personal use ::)
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I understand how you feel, I beta tested most of the public beta versions of Vista and once the RC1 was released it sealed its own fate. I bought my Mac Mini 1.83 Core Duo to use as my home computer and I only run Windows XP when I am writing databases for work in Access. Wow, I can't believe that they are continuing to fool the masses with their sub-standard software, they have spent millions of dollars of that dog and it is still crap. >:(
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the gif below is where i really feel like sending vista ;D
click on gif to see it in action :D
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meinrosebud, your switching story just made my day a whole lot better :)
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Quote: "Supports all operating systems – Windows, Mac, Linux & other operating systems"
http://avast.free-s[broken]oftware-center.com/
Mac for avast! is due this month, but what other os is avast! working on?
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DrHayden1 I LOVE THAT GIF! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D :o 8)
Fell off the chair and the chair fell over laughing *sniff sniff* ahh tears of joy!
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Quote: "Supports all operating systems – Windows, Mac, Linux & other operating systems"
h??p://avast.free-s[broken]oftware-center.com/
Mac for avast! is due this month, but what other os is avast! working on?
Your post was edited because it links rogue website which tries to sell avast! Home.
More info (http://www.avast.com/eng/fraudulent-sales-of-avast-products.html)
And description of avast! is copy&paste from the same website, but targeted to sell winamp (try to change avast to winamp in url)...
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thanks chocholo for taking that action....was wondering about that when i saw the link ??? ::)
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>:( Avast rip off sites need to be shut down!
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Erm... what?
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Your post was edited because it links rogue website which tries to sell avast! Home.
Sorry...I didn't know it was a rogue website.
I saw: "Supports all operating systems – Windows, Mac, Linux & other operating systems" & was curious as to what other os avast! was available for.
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I want my, I want my, I want my Avast Mac Version. Sorry for nagging but I have a serious feeling that this is a race against white & black hat programmers!
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Avast for mac should be released This months so be patient.
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7 more days until the end of the month and still no sign ???
Al968
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could use it on my work only mini-mac tooooooo!!!!
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If its intel based it should work (I think that that what either igor or Vlk said)
Al968
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It is a universal Binary (PowerPC and Intel)
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6 More days ;)
Go Alwil ;D
Al968
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Oy... :P
Here, read this while you're waiting...
http://www.apple.com/getamac/viruses.html
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the only reason you would need antivirus software on a Mac would be if you were running Virtual PC for Windows? But then, wouldn't you want a Windows version?
As I understand it, there is no possibility that viruses could transfer from the Virtual PC to your Mac. Right?
Though I'm empathetic, I guess I'm just not getting this.
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i can't understand it either why you need avast on a mac even though i have a mini-mac at home for my work-what's the purpose of it if what's in that article is true ??? ::)
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There's a couple of tens of viruses for Mac out there. The reason there's magnitudes more for Windows is that it's probably not worth the hassle (for the virus writers) to bother with the non-mainstream platform (suppose you want to write a virus - which platform will you choose? - one that's used by ~90% of users [Windows], or one that's used by 1% of users [OS X]?).
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thanks Vlk...still gonna put it on my work mini-mac....knowing it will be better with avast! on it like my two window computers are :)
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There's a couple of tens of viruses for Mac out there. The reason there's magnitudes more for Windows is that it's probably not worth the hassle (for the virus writers) to bother with the non-mainstream platform (suppose you want to write a virus - which platform will you choose? - one that's used by ~90% of users [Windows], or one that's used by 1% of users [OS X]?).
Thanks for the response Vlk. You know, that has been said about Linux too, and is greatly refuted as being incorrect (for both OS X and Linux).
There are many articles regarding this. Here's one of the best I've seen:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/10/06/linux_vs_windows_viruses/
(I post this link primarily for others. It is certainly not news to you. :))
Edit: As I mentioned in my original post, if a person is running virtual Windows, wouldn't they want the Windows version of avast?
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Edit: As I mentioned in my original post, if a person is running virtual Windows, wouldn't they want the Windows version of avast?
No problems. avast does install and work both in Windows XP and Vista, both on virtual environment...
Hope this is an answer that you've waiting for...
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Thanks to the people at Alwil that made this truly possible and I know the MAC people will enjoy having a topnotch antivirus on there MAC.
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Hope this is an answer that you've waiting for...
Yes, that answers the biggest part of my question.
The other part is then why is there going to be a Mac version? If you read both of attachments to my posts, is it really needed on a Unix based OS such as OS X?
Similar question. Is an antivirus program needed on Kubuntu if your not running a mail server? (Uh, I guess we both know the answer to that one.)
If you're running virtual Windows on a Mac, and using a windows version of avast, isn't running a Mac version redundant?
Look, I'm not trying to downplay new products from avast. I'm a great fan of their products, and wish them success with anything they do. Just trying to learn here...
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Malware can generally run equally well on Windows and Unix based systems (Linux, OS X etc.)
It's just that it is not doing very well (so far) on Unix based systems mainly because
- most malware authors only target the mainstream (i.e. Windows)
- non-Windows users are (statistically) more computer-knowledgable and don't "help" spreading malware that much (this is true for Linux - I'm not so sure about OS X though :))
Think of an AV as insurance - the fact there's nothing going on TODAY doesn't mean there won't be a big outbreak TOMORROW - and being ready for this can simply pay off.
Cheers
Vlk
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Any clues on when is Avast for Mac coming out VlK
Thanks
Al968
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Malware can generally run equally well on Windows and Unix based systems (Linux, OS X etc.)
As posted earlier in this thread:
http://www.apple.com/getamac/viruses.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/10/06/linux_vs_windows_viruses/
Think of an AV as insurance - the fact there's nothing going on TODAY doesn't mean there won't be a big outbreak TOMORROW - and being ready for this can simply pay off.
I wish avast well, good luck with the new product.
:)
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Vlk Mac OS X market share is bigger than 1% ;)
Also there are no more than 10 pieces of malware for the mac, almost all are proof of concept. But as Vlk says the fact there's nothing going on TODAY doesn't mean there won't be a big outbreak TOMORROW Hence Avast for mac. Plus it will be useful to detect windows viruses and worms in your email so you wont accidentally spread them to windows users
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I feel that it will only take time and some coding for someone to take advantage of Mac OSX's confidence in its immunity, the only reasons that these things exist is because of the challenge and the wish to infuriate and confuse other users. Yes, Unix-based systems are better protected than MSDOS/Windows/Vista systems because the user is not running as root or administrator so therefore any critical commands will be stopped because of lack of root... but multitasking, virtual machines and the like were only theories once.
I would like to see an Avast product something because they care.
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will they be a home free edition and professional version as the same as it is for windows ???
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March 31, where is Avast for Mac ??
Al968
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March 31, where is Avast for Mac ??
Al968
April Fools?
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http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=27441.0
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Thanks Chocholo, wasn't it suposed to be final in the month of March ?
So when is the fully operational non-beta version coming out ?
Thanks
Al968
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You know how the "supposed" works in software world...
It was a plan, but unexpected problems have been found and it took a while to fix them.
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You know how the "supposed" works in software world...
It was a plan, but unexpected problems have been found and it took a while to fix them.
OK, Thanks for the information ;)
Al968
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You know how the "supposed" works in software world...
It was a plan, but unexpected problems have been found and it took a while to fix them.
Hopefully this isn't as serious as the Vista delay.....
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It's the last day of October 2007 today... still no news or am I missing something here ? Sorry to bug, but I am very interested to see avast! working on my Mac.
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I just asked here and got an prompt(est) respond ever :) Vlk made my day ! Great news Mac lovers !
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=30519.msg259420#msg259420 (http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=30519.msg259420#msg259420)