HouseCall
HouseCall is a free antivirus and malware scanner from Trend Micro, designed to perform on-demand system scans for viruses, worms, trojans, rootkits and other malicious software. It is a lightweight utility intended as a secondary scan tool or for diagnosing suspected infections, rather than a full-featured real-time protection suite. HouseCall scans your entire system or specific folders on demand and reports detected threats, allowing users to quarantine or remove them. The tool has been part of Trend Micro's security portfolio for many years and is commonly recommended as a second opinion scanner by support forums and IT professionals.
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1 suggestionWe could not find current information about HouseCall's native Apple Silicon support or development status — Trend Micro's public presence for this particular tool is limited. If you actively rely on HouseCall, contact Trend Micro directly to ask whether a native Apple Silicon build exists or is planned. Given that Apple will remove Rosetta 2 in macOS 28 (September 2028), it is important to clarify this well before that deadline, since an Intel-only build will stop launching on that release. In the interim, consider using built-in macOS security features (Gatekeeper, XProtect, code signing verification) along with a more actively maintained native antivirus option like Kaspersky, Norton or Bitdefender, all of which offer free or subscription-based scans and ship native Apple Silicon builds. Alternatively, Malwarebytes for Mac provides on-demand scanning with a free tier and runs natively on Apple Silicon.
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