Google has created a free antivirus for Apple

According to reliable information edition ZDNet, anti Santa Google has developed for its own purposes, in order to simplify the task of managing the security of more than 40 thousand PC Apple standing in the offices of the firm.

While Google advises to use fresh anti-virus in order to test, because the program has a number of bugs, which the company expects to improve in the foreseeable future. With all this Google reports that Santa is an unofficial product company.

In normal operation Santa prevents files that are in the black list. In addition, the anti-virus allows you to run only those files that are in the white list. The changes that were made to the lists manually uploaded to the server, where become available for the virus to other computers.

Santa allows you to add applications to white and black lists based on their certificate. With all this, the admins, it is still possible priority selection options: allow to open an application that has previously been attributed to the black list, certificate, or on the contrary, to block the application, found in the white list.

Work on improving anti-virus Santa can continue anyone, because his initial code was published in the scope of an open license on the website github.com.

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