Do excuse me for reading into your question an implication of Spamming. I realize now that you were merely curious.

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It's generally not considred a good idea to run two antivirus programs at the same time. Performance of one, or both, and general performance is likely to suffer.

More good advice. Thanks for that.

I'll maybe keep the pair of them just now, though that's probably a PC thought. ONE should be fine, and I would prefer my first choice.

AV isn't needed the same on a Mac. That was one of the mitigating factors in lappy OS.

I generally only fire up ClamXav if I have what them damned Yankees call "probable cause" - ie I know I've just done something dumb (usually my curiosity getting the better of me and then colliding with spazzy fingers).

I have the Sentry watching my downloads folder and will occasionally scan my mail folders to see who hasn't got properly configured servers (I trash most false negative spam once I have taught Mail.app about it, but occasionally my curiosity get the better of me) and once in a blue moon leave it scanning the whole system overnight.

There have been a couple of very well design phishing expeditions recently. One aping Skype immediately after the new Mac beta was announced, that I almost bit on (spotting the .ru domain just in time) and one, IIRC, Adobe, again straight after some hoo-ha or other.

Now that it has had decent UI attached to it, ClamXav also no longer requires a PhD in Advanced Geekery to get working. Which is nice.

Thanks. I've installed it and it seems to run nice and quietly in the background..

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