Here is in regards to the proper way, as "they" mentioned it, of maintaining a Mac...
Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition
Let us start with antivirus application for Mac.Overview
As Apple computers grow more popular than ever, they're an increasingly-enticing target for hackers. And these hackers aren't just mischief-makers — by targeting your computer or applications you use, these criminals are out to steal and profit from your valuable personal information. Don't let them. Get free Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac today.Introducing Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition.
It's easy to install, quiet to run and simple to use — it keeps you safe from viruses, Trojans and worms without getting in your way.High-grade protection without slowing you down.
Best of all, it's free full-featured antivirus. You get business-grade protection for your Mac backed by our SophosLabs experts — they're on the job every day of the year, 24 hours a day. We'll stop, quarantine and clean up Mac or Windows threats that try to infect your computer. We can even stop new, unknown threats.As versatile as you want it to be, as powerful as you need it to be.
Nobody likes system pop-ups or system slow-downs. That's why our product won't annoy you with messages or take up your computer's resources. And once you install Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition, you're the boss. Want it to just scan quietly in the background as you work? No problem. Need to create a custom scan to check what you want and leave out what you don't? It can do that too.
Features
Full protection from viruses, Trojans and worms
Stops all threats, even those designed for Windows. Not only is your computer safe, files you send to other computers are safe from threats too.Figure 1. Youtube Video: Can Macs really get infected?
Figure 2. Youtube Video: Mac threats caught on camera
Stops all threats, familiar and unfamiliar
Our antivirus technology stops all threats, even if it's something new.Figure 3. Youtube Video: Custom scans
Figure 4: Youtube Video: Right-click scanning
Quarantines and removes the threats it finds
You might not want to immediately delete any bad files our scans find. No problem. You have the flexibility to quarantine questionable files and check them again later, or you can have them immediately removed from your computer. The choice is yours.Figure 5. Youtube Video: Clean up made easy
Business-quality antivirus, backed by SophosLabs
We've put the entire force of our business-strength threat expertise behind Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac. That means you're using the same product that protects organizations like Conair, the Paideia School and Miami Dade Public Schools.Easy installation and painless maintenance
We keep our antivirus light and easy. Once installed, it'll work quietly in the background, alerting you when it finds something nasty.Figure 6. Youtube Video: Easy installation
It's free
100%, totally, absolutely, completely free. Yes, really!
Source: http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-antivirus-for-mac-home-edition.aspx
Here is another app that could save your Mac in case of unexpected situations without the need to rush to apple shop...
Clone, synchronize, backup. Schedule and forget it. Try it 'til you trust it.
The key to a successful backup plan is to actually do the backups regularly. When left to a human, the task often gets tacked on to the end of a very long list of other things to do. When you eventually have a catastrophe, the data is simply gone. You know that feeling — you just lost six years of family photos. Your kids being born, their first birthdays, their first everything. The answer to this is consistent and regular backups, placed on a schedule and handled automatically by your computer.Carbon Copy Cloner offers fast, incremental backups that copy only items that differ from the last backup, as well as checksum analysis of your backed up files, archiving and archive management, and backup task scheduling. With CCC, you can back up to a locally-attached hard drive, to a network volume, or to another Macintosh across your network or across the Internet.
"Are you expecting some sticker shock now that you've seen that long list of features? Not with CCC! Our philosophy is that you should try the full-featured product until you trust it, then consider a donation to support the development of Carbon Copy Cloner. That's right — try ALL of these features, for FREE, let the software establish your trust, THEN donate. Isn't that the way it should be for such an important task? We think so too."
Figure 1. Youtube video: Protecting/backing up/cloning your Mac with Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC)
Source: http://www.bombich.com/ccc_features.html
Here is a cache cleaner utility for Mac systems...
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It looks so interesting right...
Here is a very clear and informative article that I would like to flaggerize in this post to provide better evaluation and recommendation which regards to this utility app...
The Best Way To Keep Your Mac Cache Clean
By Alexis Kayhill | Mac360's Archives | Home » Tips and Tricks »
It’s time for obsessive compulsive Mac users to unite, grab the Windex and clean up our favorite computer.
Or, use a good cache cleaner to keep the insides of your Mac running well. After all, a clean Mac is fast Mac, right? Mostly. Still, the Mac is loaded with files and settings which need to be cleaned—dozens of them.
A search for cleaning utilities for Macs will turn up plenty which claim to clean this, remove that, and handle many of the household chores that OS X may take care of while you’re asleep, though your Mac must be turned on to accomplish the automatic cache cleaning tasks.
MacCleanse is one of the more comprehensive utilities available for Mac users to clean logs and cache files.
Unbeknownst to most Mac users, our Macs collect and store information for us; sometimes useful, often not, but collected nonetheless.
For example, your Mac remembers your most recent applications, documents, folders, servers, and URLs.
There’s font caches, temporary files, the trash, user cache files, the clipboard, and more.
Some applications, such as Camino, Firefox, Safari and others collect cookies, download information, page history information, site icons, even passwords, and data field information.
If you use different chat utilities, they leave little trails of icons, conversation history, contact details, and more in various and sundry caches scattered on your Mac.
What happens to all that information? Most of it just sits there, growing, taking up space, though some files can impede your Mac’s performance over time.
MacCleanse gets rid of many of the logs, caches, preferences, that clutter up your Mac’s hard disk. Not only are your Mac’s system files cleansed, many applications leave their own clutter files, which also need to be removed.
Each Mac system is capable of creating logs and caches all over the place—system logs, software update logs, web server access logs, archived logs, Mail logs, installation logs, user logs, crash reporter logs, system caches, and many, many more.
MacCleanse lets you remove them all, or a group of them, or one at a time. In the unlikely event that your Mac’s hard drive is getting full, you can reclaim hundreds of megs of storage space.
Included is the ability to find clutter files left behind by a laundry list of Mac utilities and applications, ranging from AIM, iChat, Firefox, Safari, Skype, and many more.
What’s the advantage of this kind of cleaning? We live in an age when personal privacy is a prime issue for many Mac users, and identity theft is more common. Your Mac stores plenty of personal information in logs, caches, preferences.
Sell your Mac or let a friend, family member, or neighbor use it for awhile, and all that information is available to someone else.
MacCleanse makes it clean, keeps it clean because you get to choose what you want cleaned and when.
MacCleanse may not be the least expensive of such cache cleaning utilities, though it may be the most thorough. Even better is the complete list of everything MacCleanse does, each item that gets cleansed is recorded for your review.
Security is important, so just deleting old files, preferences, caches, and logs is not enough. MacCleanse also securely deletes information, making it nearly impossible to recover, even for experienced hackers.
If peace of mind is important, MacCleanse is a good place to get started. It’s not as though there’s no competition for Mac maintenance utilities.
Source: http://mac360.com/index.php/mac360/comments/the_best_way_to_keep_your_mac_cache_clean
Overview
Product Description
MacCleanse is a powerful application geared towards purifying your system and reclaiming hard disk space. In only seconds, it can perform over fifty tasks which could take hours to perform manually. Safely uninstall applications, slim Universal Binaries, wipe unused languages, erase caches, empty logs, clear cookies, forget web histories, locate unused and old files, and more. MacCleanse won't miss a thing and could reclaim hundreds of megabytes, if not gigabytes, of storage.
Going above and beyond the call of duty, MacCleanse provides detailed information on each item it cleanses, and can even wipe files with US Department of Defense level security. After a scan is complete, never worry about deleting something automatically by mistake. MacCleanse provides a detailed list of all items it intends to clear before the operation completes, and allows you to uncheck any to leave untouched. Also run it automatically on a weekly schedule with a preset list of items to erase so you won't even have to think about it.
It is an ideal solution when shopping for gifts, cleansing the system after someone else has used it, when preparing to sell your computer, or just for reclaiming wasted disk space. But, most importantly, ensure your personal information is out of reach.
MacCleanse also contains enhanced features for specific applications like Acquisition, Adium, AIM, aMSN, Azureus, Bit Torrent, Colloquy, FireFox 2 & 3, iCab, iChat, ICQ, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, MPlayer, MSN Messenger, Netscape, OmniWeb, Opera, Preview, QuickTime, Safari, Skype, Transmission, Unison, Xtorrent, and Yahoo Messenger. These enhanced features allow you to pick and choose what exactly to remove from the application - be it only auto-fill values from Safari or the recent download history in Xtorrent.
Features:
Advanced Clean:
- Uninstall applications & related files
- Slim down Universal Binaries by removing PowerPC or Intel components.
- Search and destroy archives and disk images.
- Scan, preview, and erase duplicate files.
- Clear out unused languages within applications.
- Manage login items and clean broken items.
- Securely erase files.
- Search for old and unused files to flag for removal.
- Last Current Directory
- Last Root Directory
- Recent Documents
- Recent Folders
- Recent Places
- Last Go to Folder
- Recent Applications
- Recent Documents
- Recent Folders
- Recent Servers
- Last Connect URL
- All Computer Caches
- All System Caches
- All Crash Reporter Logs
- All Current User Logs
- Apple File Service Logs
- Console Logs
- Crash Reporter Logs
- Cron Logs
- CUPS Access Logs
- CUPS Error Logs
- Fax Logs
- FTP Logs
- Install Logs
- IPFW Logs
- Lookupd Logs
- LPR Logs
- Mail Logs
- NetInfo Logs
- PPP Logs
- Samba Logs
- Security Server Logs
- Software Update Logs
- System Logs
- Web Server Access Logs
- Web Server Error Logs
- Window Server Logs
- Archived Logs
- Acquisition Blacklist
- Acquisition Download Cache
- Acquisition Inquisitor History
- Acquisition Recent Searches
- Bit Torrent Open Torrents
- Disk Utility Recent Disk Images
- Frogblast News History
- Ircle Cookies
- Ircle Faces
- iTunes Recent Databases
- iPhoto Recent Databases
- Konfabulator Recent Widgets
- Limewire Incomplete Downloads
- MPlayer Playlist
- MS Office Font Cache
- MS Office Registration Cache
- Preview Bookmarks
- QuickTime Recent Files
- Temporary Files
- Trash
- Unison Group Preferences
- Unison Newsgroup Cache
- User Cache
- User Clipboard
- VideoLANClient Cache
- Xtorrent Settings
- Cookies
- Download List
- Page History
- Site Icons
- Web Site Cache
- Cookies
- Downloads List
- Form Values
- Page History
- Web Site Cache
- Cookies
- Downloads List
- Page History
- Web Site Cache
- Downloads List
- Downloads Cache
- Page History
- Temporary Files
- Web Site Cache
- Cookies
- Downloads List
- Page History
- Web Site Cache
- Cookies
- Downloads List
- Page History
- Web Site Cache
- Cookies
- Downloads List
- Page History
- Site Icons
- Web Site Cache
- Cookies
- Downloads List
- Form Values
- Page History
- Recent Searches
- Site Icons
- Web Site Cache
Source: http://www.koingosw.com/products/maccleanse.php
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