Open Source Avast Free Antivirus Alternatives for Mac

There are many alternatives to Avast Free Antivirus for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best open source Mac alternative is ClamAV. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Avast Free Antivirus and four of them are open source and available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Mac alternatives to Avast Free Antivirus are Download Virus Checker, Raspirus and KicomAV.

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  1. ClamAV icon
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    Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It provides a number of utilities including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner and advanced tool for automatic...

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  2. Download Virus Checker provides automatic check for all your downloads through 68 online anti-virus solutions. Basically the extension sends your download link to VirusTotal service and wait for its response.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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  3. Raspirus icon
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    Sometimes you work on a computer that is not connected to the internet. It even has no antivirus installed, and you guess you are safe. But it could be used by a lot of people that upload and download files using their personal USB sticks.

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  4. KicomAV icon
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    KicomAV is an open source (GPL v2) antivirus engine designed for detecting malware and disinfecting it. In fact, Since 1995, it has been written in C/C++ and it was integrated into the ViRobot engine of HAURI, 1998. I decided to re-create a new KicomAV.

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Discontinued

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