Installation and configuration 2.1. Disinfection and prevention 4.1. As of September 2000 there are approximately 60 Macintosh specific viruses and over 5000 macro viruses which can directly affect Macintoshes.
Macintoshes can also act as carriers of viruses for other platforms.
Sophos Anti-Virus for Macintosh requires Mac OS 7.5 or above. The InterCheck on-access scanner requires 1.3Mb RAM and 800KB of disk space. The Sophos Anti-Virus Installer program automatically detects whether you are running a 68k or Power PC based Macintosh and installs the appropriate version. Sophos Anti-Virus for Macintosh is available in English, French, German, Spanish and Japanese. Sophos are currently developing an OS X version of Sophos Anti-Virus .