avast4home for Mac?

[whatagame]

I downloaded avast4home only to find an .exe file which is useless for a mac. Does Avast do Mac compatible software. Also the web page on my machine is virtually unreadable, it is all over the place, words over words etc, I am sure this is not how it is meant to look, I am having terrible trouble reading anything. This forums section is fine. Can anyone help.

[bob3160]

Avast! Home is not designed for the Mac operating system.

[xistenz]

There are very few (if any) viruses for MacIntosh. Hence no need for a virus scanner. Also, the Mac platform is not very popular for server usage, so no server side virus scanning is necessary.

As for the webpage issue, I see it fine with Windows IE6 and Firefox. I can only assume its an issue with your browser.

[DavidR]

Currently there is no Mac version of avast.

This was discussed some time ago and I believe that because of the limited user base of the Mac and the reduced infection risk (something the Mac user will boast about), this was not deemed a viable commercial option.

These are my thoughts/opinions and not those of Alwil who make avast!

As for the the display of the forums we have a large cross browser member base but for the most part these are using either windows or linux not Mac based browsers.

We do have one known Mac user username .: Mac :. who obviously doesn't suffer the problems you mention, but I'm unaware what browser he is using.

[Vlk]

A version of avast designed for Mac might actually come up by the end of this year... no promises though