Gatekeeper, by Chris Johnson, is a program designed to continuously monitor the operation of your Macintosh, watching for operations that are commonly carried out by viruses as they try to propagate. When Gatekeeper detects an infection attempt it will automatically stop the attempt, almost before it's started.
Gatekeeper also includes the ability to automatically detect and remove certain particularly aggressive viruses. This is done continuously in an on-the-fly fashion which will never leaving you waiting for a scan to complete, unlike some of the commercial products of this kind.
Click here to download Gatekeeper 1.3.
Click here to download Disinfectant 3.6.Note: this list is moderated and is not intended to provide a forum for discussion. (After all, we have the comp.sys.mac news hierarchy for that already.)
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