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Ideally, you should be able to define the day on which weekly scans are done and create entirely custom schedules–scanning on the second Wednesday of the month, say. (Installation of updates for both virus definitions and the app itself can be scheduled as well, with the same options.) These scheduling options are basic at best. You can also schedule iAntiVirus to scan your Mac once a week, daily, every other day, or never.

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Archive files (zip files, for example) can be optionally scanned for viruses as well. If you have a particular set of folders that you want to examine, then a Custom scan is what you want. The Normal scan takes longer but is far more comprehensive. Quick scan is, not surprisingly, the fastest of the three, but it scans only certain areas of your Mac’s hard drive (those that are known to typically harbor malware). IAntiVirus offers three flavors of scans: Quick, Normal, and Custom. iAntiVirus took a little over an hour to scan both drives in my Mac Pro, which hold about 830GB of data. PC Tools made this choice so the app would be lightweight its database is small, and it can scan many files very quickly. IAntiVirus 1.0 from PC Tools takes a different approach: its threat database only contains signatures for known Mac-specific malware (including viruses, worms, trojans, and the like), though the scanning engine is capable of scanning for PC threats as well.

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