Anti virus

Since moving back into my parents for a little while, my dad has been nagging me to make sure I installed antivirus on all my machines before I even try to connect to the family network, even if it's opensource or  an Apple iMac.

iMac

I read recently there was a trojan virus that spread through the Apple iMacs and affected over 600,000 machines.   I felt lucky to reading up that Sophos was able to remove trojans (Not sure if could remove this "Flash Back" one though),  it has a nice easy graphical user interface too and blends into the iMac well.  Still glad Apple released a security patch which I installed straight away.

Ubuntu

Not sure if this is true, I had a ago at Avast's Linux version and was not impressed that it crashes whilst trying to put in the license code.  I am very impressed with AVG's efforts, where the have made a DAEMON to run in the background and is just a couple of commands to get it updating and scanning.

Future Possibilities
What I have found interesting recently is ClamAV has on access scanning (passive mode) feature for OS X, so I may research this as another solution for Apple iMac.  I have used ClamAV before and I am also impressed with this one.

Further Reading

AVG

Sophos
ClamAV