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Automating ClamAV

automate clamav package install

For those of you without antivirus protection for your Mac (which I guess is all of you, right?) there's always ClamAV. And while Clam is fantastic, updating the package requires a cumbersome trip to Sourceforge to download and compile on your machine. Fortunately, Macosxhints has a post with a shell script automating the process. Now since Terminal is AppleScriptable, you can run this script with a simple drop down as well. In fact, shell scripts are accessible via AppleScript directly, but I digress. You could just get all fancy and grab ClamXav, the GUI front-end to ClamAV.