avast! antivirus Mac Edition provides a complete enterprise-class anti-malware solution for the Mac platform that protects users valuable and irreplacable 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 collegues, by detecting such threats, that might be innocuous on the Mac platform, but can be passed on to other platforms in heterogeneous environments.
The product comes as a universal binary, deployable against both PowerPC and Intel platforms of the Mac, running OS X 10.4 or higher.
The product provides a central scanning service with adjustable priority and remote accesability, with access via TCP or UNIX sockets.
The products modular architecture means the GUI can adopt new features provided by the scanning deamon architecture automatically.
avast! Mac Edition allows autorun after start, on-demand, on access and mail antivirus protection. Chesting and repair tools are built in.
avast!'s legendary unpacker/packer/archive support is also fully supported on the Mac platform.
avast! Mac Edition supports standard template pre-setup for most needed / wanted preferences, to make installation and use, particularly in a corporate environment, painless and industry leading in approach.
avast! antivirus Mac Edition runs as a fully feature demo free for 60 days from installation and provides a complete antivirus, antimalware and antispyware solution for the Mac platform.