The most popular and widely used Antivirus software for Mac is McAfee Virus Scan for Mac. It was formerly known as Virex and it can be used as a stand-alone virus scanner or can be integrated along with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator for business management. It is supported by Mac OS X 10.4.6 (Tiger) and later along with Mac OS X 10.5.6 (Leopard).

The biggest risk to an enterprise is the vast abundance or backdoors and key loggers which are being distribute throughout the Web world in the Modern age and not knowing what is happening on his networked machines is a user’s biggest nightmare. One of the major limitation of antivirus software made for Mac is that they do not lent themselves to network wide management. Here is where the McAfee antivirus scores over the others as it gets bonus marks for its merging capabilities with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator. It enables the administrator to pre-configure policies and get access to scan reports.

McAfee can also be installed as through the command line or through a setup interface and it is also allowed to pull direct updates from McAfee default or through a designated internal FTP server.

Its features include detections from viruses, exploits, worms, Trojans and spyware which threaten the Mac and UNIX systems. McAfee for Mac can stop all kinds of virus and malicious programme which include even the compressed files as it uses advanced generic detection. The drag and drop scanning facilitates a quick check of newly downloaded files where as on access scanning can provide real time protection. It also provides continuous policy enforcement for multiple directories and files along with volumes on remote computers connected through the network.
 
The interface of the software is quite easy to get accustomed to it uses Apple’s Mac OS X Aqua user interface. Also its drop scan feature the user can have easy on-demand scanning. It is very easy to update the McAfee anti-virus for Mac as it takes just one single click for the software to grab the latest edition of the software from default. Timely up gradation ensures full compliance and protection against the worms, viruses and other malicious codes and programmes.

Also using the McAfee Orchestrator ePolicy, it is very easy to manage, control and report a virus threat by using a single console display.