{"id":1592,"date":"2015-06-15T15:21:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T21:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.natsci.colostate.edu\/cnsit\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2025-01-21T16:06:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T23:06:48","slug":"the-state-of-anti-virus-software-cnsit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/the-state-of-anti-virus-software-cnsit\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of Anti-Virus Software &#038; CNSIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Anti-Virus for CSU Owned Computers<\/h3>\n<p>All CSU owned computers are centrally managed- via Windows Defender.\u00a0 No action is needed, and policy is automatically updated and enforced.<\/p>\n<h3>Installing Anti-Virus on Personal Computers<\/h3>\n<p>After the uninstall, new antivirus software should be installed.\u00a0 The following directions should provide adequate information on what the ACNS\/CNSIT recommended alternatives and how to use them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Windows Operating Systems<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For Windows 10\/11, the software is called Microsoft Defender and is already installed on default and works wonderfully for our purposes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MacOS (10.6 and newer)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For MacOS, there are some free options as well as some buy options.\u00a0 At the moment, we don&#8217;t have enough experience with any of these to recommend one over the other.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a list of several free and for-purchase options: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/us\/best-antivirus,review-2588-6.html\">http:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/us\/best-antivirus,review-2588-6.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-Virus for CSU Owned Computers All CSU owned computers are centrally managed- via Windows Defender.\u00a0 No action is needed, and policy is automatically updated and enforced. Installing Anti-Virus on Personal Computers After the uninstall, new antivirus software should be installed.\u00a0 The following directions should provide adequate information on what the ACNS\/CNSIT recommended alternatives and how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-cnsit","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5028,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions\/5028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}