The MacPorts Project Official Homepage

The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac operating system. To that end we provide the command-line driven MacPorts software package under a 3-Clause BSD License, and through it easy access to thousands of ports that greatly simplify the task of compiling and installing open-source software on your Mac.

To finish installation & run clamav you will need to edit the example conf files at $(brew -prefix)/etc/clamav/. There are two classes of clamav packages available for Ubuntu users: Released Set. The released set (release,.-updates, and.-security) are patched for security updates. Following extensive testing of clamav and the packages that use it in the backports repository, they may be updated to a newer version. Get from the download website the setup file: installer-mac.zip To install LogicalDOC unpack the zip archive, open a terminal window and execute the command from command line: $ java -jar logicaldoc-installer.jar. Get from the download website the setup file: installer-mac.zip To install LogicalDOC unpack the zip archive, open a terminal window and execute the command from command line: $ java -jar logicaldoc-installer.jar.

We provide a single software tree that attempts to track the latest release of every software title (port) we distribute, without splitting them into “stable” Vs. “unstable” branches, targeting mainly macOS High Sierra v10.13 and later (including macOS Big Sur v11). There are thousands of ports in our tree, distributed among different categories, and more are being added on a regular basis.

Getting started

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For information on installing MacPorts please see the installation section of this site and explore the myriad of download options we provide and our base system requirements.

If you run into any problems installing and/or using MacPorts we also have many options to help you, depending on how you wish to get get in touch with us. Other important help resources are our online documentation, A.K.A The MacPorts Guide, and our Trac Wiki server & bug tracker.

Latest MacPorts release: 2.6.4

Getting involved: Students

A good way for students to get involved is through the Google Summer of Code. GSoC is a program to encourage students' participation in Open Source development and offers a stipend to work on the project with an organization for three months. MacPorts has been participating in the program since 2007! We shall participate next year as well. You may find past GSoC projects here.

We have a list of ideas with possible tasks for MacPorts and additional information about the process at wiki/SummerOfCode. We are always open to new ideas. Research on the idea, draft an initial proposal and get it reviewed.

Getting involved

There are many ways you can get involved with MacPorts and peer users, system administrators & developers alike. Browse over to the “Contact Us” section of our site and:

Explore our mailing lists, either if it is for some general user support or to keep on top of the latest MacPorts developments and commits to our software repository.
Check out our Support & Development portal for some bug reporting and live tutorials through the integrated Wiki server.
Or simply come join us for a friendly IRC chat if you wish for more direct contact with the people behind it all.

If on the other hand you are interested in joining The MacPorts Project in any way, then don't hesitate to contact the project's management team, “PortMgr”, to explain your particular interest and present a formal application. We're always looking for more helping hands that can extend and improve our ports tree and documentation, or take MacPorts itself beyond its current limitations and into new areas of the vast software packaging field. We're eager to hear from you!

When a contract requires anti-virus on all computers, even the Mac OS X systems, which do you choose?

Macs are not Commonly Affected, in the traditional sense

One nice thing about working in a heavily Mac OS X environment, which most Ruby on Rails development companies are is that there just are not the number and variety of viruses on the platform as there are in the Windows environment.

This is not to say that a Mac user does not face many security threats - they do face threats, nor that they cannot be hacked - they most certainly can be hacked. In fact, a review of Secunia’s Vulnerability Report: Apple Macintosh OS X is a good exercise here. All this said, Macs are just not commonly known to be affected by viruses in the same sense that a Windows or DOS computer has been. And some of this is the economics of virus authoring.

However, as a Mac OS X user, I am not invulnerable and I am still required by contract to install and use anti-virus software.

The PCI Requirement

Everyone who has had to deal with a company accepting credit card transactions knows about the Payment Card Industry Digital Security Standards (PCI-DSS). You can read the rules for yourself at Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard: Requirements and Security Assessment Procedures - Version 2.0 (PDF document). It’s 75 pages long, and in my personal opinion is great light bedtime reading. Among its requirements is that all companies that handle credit card data in anyway, even just keying it into a web-based terminal, must maintain an vulnerability management program. This prescriptively requires that the business must:

Requirement 5: Use and regularly update anti-virus software or programs
Requirement 6: Develop and maintain secure systems and applications

In this post, I am focusing in an Requirement 5, which declares that the company must (as in not optional):

Deploy anti-virus software on all systems commonly affected by malicious software (particularly personal computers and servers).
Ensure that all anti-virus programs are capable of detecting, removing, and protecting against all known types of malicious software.
Ensure that all anti-virus mechanisms are current, actively running, and generating audit logs.
That such logs provide an audit trail history that is retained for at least one year, with a minimum of three months immediately available for analysis (for example, online, archived, or restorable from back-up).

And yes, they will check on this. At the very least with a detailed assessment questionnaire that the company owner will sign or via actual audit.

But, what if we do not store any credit card numbers

For any business, one of the most important security precautions is to never store credit card numbers - not ever. Using a gateway service with payment data tokenization, such as Stripe, BluePay, or even Authorize.net’s CIM is vital.

It is best if your business never touches any customer credit card details, but such details are only ever entered by customers directly. However, if you ever take card details from a customer, such as over the phone, and then type that data into your invoicing software or merchant virtual terminal, then you have to pay attention to PCI-DSS.

That last case is the situation that my own company is in. We do not handle a lot of credit cards, not like a brick and mortar merchant would. Therefore, we still have to take contractually mandated security precautions.

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In light of this requirement, choosing a good anti-virus

At this stage, you are looking for an anti-virus provider that:

Runs on Mac OS X
Is capable of detecting known threats
Automatically updates virus definitions and its scanning engine
Compiles a detailed log that is auditable and is maintained for at least a year.

Next, I am going to review the two products that I am currently using in my own company. This is not meant to be a side-by-side guide of all products on the market with pros and cons of each. Feel free to research your options based upon these criteria to find out what’s best for your company.

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Last year, I took a look at several anti-virus applications, and ended up se

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