Adware Prevention?

[elund]

AdwareMedic works great for removing adware. I found that Sophos does deal with some of the adware. Does anyone know of anti-virus software, or the like, that can actively prevent adware from being installed? Looking for another hammer to take care of these pesky annoyances.

Thanks!
Ed

[mpenrod]

Is anyone still using SavingThrow? Is it better just to have everyone run MalwareBytes?

[cbrewer]

@mpenrod I was just looking into this. The main problem is that none of the ADF files have been updated in 2+ years. This makes me think it's going to be of limited use. Apple used to publish a list of definitions, which the default ADF file was created from. They've since replaced this page with generic information about malware.

https://github.com/SavingThrows/AdwareDefinitionFiles
https://support.apple.com/en-us/ht203987