ClamXav 2.0.1 - Virus checker. (Free)

ClamXav is a free virus checker for Mac OS X. It uses the tried, tested and very popular ClamAV open source antivirus engine as a back end.

I hope you like and use ClamXav a lot and that it helps keep you and your friends/colleagues virus-free. Although I'm providing ClamXav for free, I am increasingly spending more and more time developing it and would really appreciate if you would consider making a donation please. All donations (no matter how small) are gratefully received and would be a huge incentive to help me work on future versions of ClamXav, but more importantly I rely on donations to pay for my bandwidth costs. Please consider it, see the ClamXav homepage, click the 'More Information' link above on this page.

This is a Public Beta release.

• Java is no more. ClamXav is now written entirely in Objective-C
• Launch time has reduced considerably
• The interface is now much simpler to use and more inkeeping with other OS X applications
• You can save your favourite scan locations for easy access
• Toolbar buttons can be rearranged to your heart's content, or hidden entirely
• Infected files are listed more clearly
• You can send selected files to quarantine or trash with one click
• Specifying exclusion settings is now a much simpler task
• Setting a schedule is now more straight-forward
• Specifying the location of your own ClamAV installation is now easier
• Updates are taken care of directly within the application, automatically quitting and relaunching Sentry if necessary
• Sentry can be told to monitor sub-folders on a per folder basis
• Sentry no longer requires Spotlight to do the monitoring
• Sentry launches and starts monitoring much more quickly
• Sentry requires far less memory to run
• If a disk or folder is not available when Sentry launches, this isn't a problem any more; monitoring will continue when the folder reappears
• Added compatibility for 10.6 Snow Leopard

Known bugs:

• Sometimes, ClamXav will crash when you attempt to launch it. It's an intermittent problem and I would have preferred to hold off until I could fix it, but Apple have somewhat twisted my arm by releasing Snow Leopard ahead of their publicised schedule.
• There's a memory leak in ClamXav when scanning large folders
• I still need to write the online documentation