sophos anti virus trial software / shareware for mac

Sophos Anti-Virus is a tool that provides protection against all known virus types.
InterCheck technology keeps users safe by intercepting all files accessed and scanning them in real time. The Sophos Anti-Virus GUI allows users to scan files, folders and volumes on demand. Users can also use the new command-line interface to initiate scans.
Third-party developers can now incorporate Sophos Anti-Virus into their products using SAV Interface for Mac OS X.
Main features:
- Centralised management and updating
- Enterprise Console enables you to install, configure and manage Sophos Anti-Virus network-wide from a central point
- EM Library automatically downloads Sophos Anti-Virus software and virus detection files, and deploys the latest protection across the network
- Award-winning virus protection
- Detection and disinfection of viruses, Trojans, worms and malicious spyware in real time, at every potential point of infection, ensures full network protection.
- Cross-platform detection
- Integrated cross-platform virus detection enables Windows viruses to be deleted and cleaned on a Mac OS X computer.
- Enterprise Console enables key administrative tasks, such as installation, configuration, monitoring and management, to be performed across the network from a central point.
- Automatic updates
- The latest software and virus detection updates are automatically downloaded from Sophos through our updating application, EM Library, ensuring that all computers across the network, including remote laptops, are fully protected.
- Virus reporting
- Every virus incident is automatically reported to the administrator, making day-to-day management even easier.
Version restrictions:
- 30-day evaluation.

Avast Antivirus Mac Edition 2.74 is a professional and useful tool which has the same ICSA Certified scan engine as all Avast antivirus products, offering protection against the latest and legacy virus, malware, Trojan horse, and spyware risks. Virus definitions and scanning capabilities are updated often (sometime several times per day, depending on current threats), so you can rest assured that your Mac is protected at all times. All you need to do is install, configure once (if you want to change the default settings) and forget about malware being a problem.

Major Features:

1. Full on-access scanning--which scans files as you access them, to make sure they are safe from infection; on-demand scanning--for scheduled or ad-hoc scans of your system volumes;
2. Mail protection-integrated mail protection can stop infection at one of the most vulnerable access vectors;
3. Virus Chest--a safe storage place for infected or suspected files, where they cannot harm your system; fully automatic updating of the program and virus definitions;
4. Full scanner preference control
5. Under-the-hood technology features include: native execution of virus database on Intel platform Macs, with fast emulation on PowerPC of assembler-level parts;
6. Multi-threaded scanning daemon;
7. Industry leading unpacker support (for archives);
8. Able to upgrade the definitions database, even while doing background scanning;
9. Application itself multi-threaded; fail-safe updating architecture (if the daemon fails to do an update, the main application will do it instead);
10. Kernel extension architecture for capturing after-close events on modified files;
11. Optimized software architecture, including non-blocking system calls;
12. The program is designed for speed and non-degraded system performance.

McAfee VirusScan for Macis a tool that runs natively on both Intel and PPC based Macintosh computers.
It can be managed by McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator for scalable security policy compliance and graphical reporting. It includes true On Access scanning and supports scanning of Apple Mail messages on Mac OS X Tiger (10.4.0 & above).
Version restrictions:
- Fully functional version that will expire in 90 days.

Compositor is a full featured image editing and image to art application. It is one of the better values in the shareware market. I think you will agree after you take the tour and use the program.
Main features:
- Over 165 Filters and channel effects
- Levels and Curves for great image enhancing and color correction.
- Full Painting and Editing Tool Set
- Save and Replay of your Filter actions
- Slide Show
- Quick Palette for commonly used operations
- Crop, Scale and Rotate
- Anti-Aliasing Zoom Window
- Online Help
- Priced at $35 USD
- Its Fun too, and worth 2 times the price. (quoting customers).

Protection 1.0 provides you a powerful anti-thieft software which helps retrieve your Mac. It is an anti theft software with a lot of possibilities: iSight capture, screen capture, data hiding on the stolen Mac Protection sends all this information (including IP address of the thief) on a server and you'll be able to track the thief around the world. Don't be scared of revealing secrets to the thies, Protection hide your confidential data such as Mails and iCal events ! Your are helped and assisted during all the recovery process.