There are other free offerings personally I find ClamXav a bit awkward to setup and work with, and Sophos Antivirus is meant to be good though personally I had persistent issues with it.īut yeah, there are plenty of good free offerings, so why not just install one and give it a try for a week or two? If you like it, and it is lightweight enough for you, then keep it, if not then try another.

Only minor niggles are that its notifications don't use Notification Centre, and don't do anything if you click them (so you have to open the app yourself and find the problem), and it requires you to register to get your free license, which then needs to be renewed yearly. Why not just install antivirus software? I'm currently using Avast! Free Antivirus for Mac its basic scanning is very lightweight and easy to setup and use. If you're not downloading anything soon after it gets uploaded then these should usually give you an idea of whether other users have encountered issues.

Some torrent sites do have feedback statistics which will show if other users have reported a torrent as malicious or of poor quality. I'm not aware of any online scanner that can work wholly within Javascript, which means you'd need to send at least some of the file for scanning given what torrents are normally used for this would be incredibly slow.

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