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Yesterday, Symantec released their latest AntiVirus suite, 11, to retail. But the official site was not up and running, and no screenshots or demos had been posted on the internet. MacNN has just posted a first look at AntiVirus 11 for Mac - with plenty of high quality screen shots. As you know from Apple’s consistent marketing, Macs do very rarely receive viruses, and if they do they are often minor issues. For exmaple, there was once the case of a Microsoft Word macro virus - but it didn’t affect any other part of the Mac OS X operating system. It’s a solid OS, built on UNIX, which is very secure at the core.

MacNN’s first look covers most of the basic stuff you need to know - from installation to daily updates and weekly scans. To me, this looks like a great piece of software. But I am still unsure how many Mac users will actually buy this AntiVirus suite - after Apple continually marketing the Mac as practically virus-free. AntiVirus 11 is just a virus scanning suite, so there is no firewall (Mac OS X has one built-in anyway). The official product page is now online and the system requirements are very low: Mac OS X 10.4 or higher, PowerPC or Intel, 128MB RAM and 100MB of hard disk space free.

Via [MacNN]