{"id":15732,"date":"2016-11-23T10:02:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T10:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/technology\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=15732"},"modified":"2018-10-05T13:24:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T13:24:14","slug":"antivirus-and-antimalware-guide","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/technology\/knowledge-base\/antivirus-and-antimalware-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Antivirus and Antimalware Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article explains how to protect your Mac computer and how to remove Norton\/Symantec Antivirus software that NIST no longer uses for Mac computers.<\/p>\n<h2>Getting Rid of Norton\/Symantec Antivirus<\/h2>\n<p>NIST used to install Norton\/Symantec Antivirus for all Mac computers, but we have since stopped, so some of you still have Norton\/Symantec on your machines. If you see this icon on your machine, you need to remove Norton\/Symantec software. Here is how:<\/p>\n<div>How to remove Norton\/Symantec <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1Stf5JS9bTMtU4bof1qUSksDVKGaH7rxzgNWjBBK7sbU\/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en-GB&amp;q=https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id%3D1vJQjJuwmkM2l4b16AYIgjbxAGDehAZGhV9-IP2MFNhM&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1479888925303000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHAqPzO_z4Oh7tknhFIsxFaw92X8g\">Link<\/a><\/div>\n<h2>Get MalwareBytes Software<\/h2>\n<div>How to install MalwareBytes <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=1r2FEk_qq_vKjRN_eiReH1HOpm2l521Ieak0EJqDqRcI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en-GB&amp;q=https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id%3D1r2FEk_qq_vKjRN_eiReH1HOpm2l521Ieak0EJqDqRcI&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1479888925303000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG5gVKs5x0I_LsDWNYadoErugCqPA\">Link<\/a><\/div>\n<h2>Run a Scan of Your Computer<\/h2>\n<p>You should do this once a month. If you set a repeating calendar event, you will always be reminded to do this once a month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article explains how to protect your Mac computer and how to remove Norton\/Symantec Antivirus software that NIST no longer uses for Mac computers. Getting Rid of Norton\/Symantec Antivirus NIST used to install Norton\/Symantec Antivirus for all Mac computers, but we have since stopped, so some of you still have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[1154431],"ht-kb-tag":[1154222,1154223,1154225,1154224],"class_list":["post-15732","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-it-support2","ht_kb_tag-antivirus","ht_kb_tag-malware","ht_kb_tag-malwarebytes","ht_kb_tag-norton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/15732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15732"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/15732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16938,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/15732\/revisions\/16938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=15732"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=15732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}