Hi All:
I tried Clam antivirus but it was too complicated for me and made my computer run very hot.
Yesterday I decided to try the free Avira Antivirus Program for the Mac from Germany. Wow! It took over 15 hours to scan my hard drive, found 13906493 files and supposedly 613 viruses. It stated 1 was successful and 612 failed, whatever that means. When I looked up the name of a couple of their viruses on their site, they didn't have these listed with the known others. I am assuming most of them are false positives. It found Worms and Trojans if TR stand for Trojan.
I just got this computer in July. How could it take this long to scan? And all those viruses? Clam took less than an hour for the whole hard drive and found nothing.
If they are false positives, if I delete them or keep them in quarantine, will that affect my computer because it was something I needed afterall? Should I restore them to my computer?
Maybe I should use no antivirus and remain blissfully oblivious!
Rita
