The best free antivirus platforms for Mac in 2018 These are the 5 best free antivirus apps to protect your MacBook By Jon Martindale @jonwhoopty — Posted on November 13, 2018 - 2:02PM 11.13.18. Avast Security Pro for Mac review: Everything a modern antivirus app needs and a little bit more An all-around champion has strong malware-fighting abilities packaged with worthwhile extras. Intego's Mac Internet Security X9 is our pick of the bunch, making it the best antivirus for Mac 2018. We found that Intego did its core job better than any other antivirus app we reviewed here. AVG AntiVirus for Mac helps keep your Mac free of viruses and running smoothly. Through its intuitive interface, this app lets you manage your security settings and run scans at any time to ensure complete protection. Kaspersky is a well regarded name in the field of antivirus protection, and it maintains that reputation with its Internet Security for Mac software, which brings a range of features that put much.
Just kidding! Mac users don’t use anti-virus apps. Right? Seriously. You don’t, right? And yet the Mac App Store has a dozen or so anti-virus apps. What’s the deal?
If Macs don’t get viruses– that’s what I hear on the streets of Macland– then why all the anti-virus applications? Well, as it turns out, viruses are a part of malware, and malware is everywhere, so it doesn’t hurt to be protected.
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Are Mac users somewhat paranoid about viruses and malware? After all, most Mac users these days came from the dark side of Windows life. Look what you can buy on the Mac App Store.
Click or tap the image to see the details of which antivirus apps are available for the Mac. And that’s not the entire list.
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Just yesterday I read a lengthy– and I mean length with girth– app review for Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac. Apparently this is a very good antivirus malware detector.
It received the highest possible detection scores from AV-TEST and AV Comparatives: 100 percent from AV-TEST for detection of macOS potentially unwanted applications (PUA), and above 99 percent for identifying Windows malware.
Whoa! What’s not to like? Well, the price tag, for one. $60. Per year. For three Macs.
Through the years I’ve tried a few of the so-called antivirus malware removal applications. Most of them find files that are OK, and not one has found a bit of malware and certainly not a single virus– and that’s on a Mac that lives and works in a mixed environment of Mac, Windows, and Linux PCs.
Yes, Macs can be infected with malware and there are enough antivirus apps out there to tell you malware is a problem somewhere on someone’s Mac. But where?
Do you run malware detection apps or utilities on your Mac?
Apple ships the Mac with the firewall turned off so even the Mac maker itself isn’t worried about outside hackers making their way into the Mac. Obviously, the problem is the same as it has always been. The user. For Macs that I know have been infected with some variant of malware, it’s usually because the Mac user visited a website or downloaded an infected application.
The virus or malware didn’t find its way to the Mac. The Mac user brought it home. My Macs from the last century had more viruses and malware than any Mac I’ve owned in the 21st century. Is the malware industry an industry looking for a problem to solve? Or, is there a problem and growing threat that needs a solution?
Just kidding! Mac users don’t use anti-virus apps. Right? Seriously. You don’t, right? And yet the Mac App Store has a dozen or so anti-virus apps. What’s the deal?
If Macs don’t get viruses– that’s what I hear on the streets of Macland– then why all the anti-virus applications? Well, as it turns out, viruses are a part of malware, and malware is everywhere, so it doesn’t hurt to be protected.
Are Mac users somewhat paranoid about viruses and malware? After all, most Mac users these days came from the dark side of Windows life. Look what you can buy on the Mac App Store.
Click or tap the image to see the details of which antivirus apps are available for the Mac. And that’s not the entire list.
Some time ago I read a lengthy– and I mean length with girth— app review for Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac. Apparently this is a very good antivirus malware detector.
It received the highest possible detection scores from AV-TEST and AV Comparatives: 100 percent from AV-TEST for detection of macOS potentially unwanted applications (PUA), and above 99 percent for identifying Windows malware.
Whoa! What’s not to like? Well, the price tag, for one. $60. Per year. For three Macs.
Through the years I’ve tried a few of the so-called antivirus malware removal applications. Most of them find files that are OK, and not one has found a bit of malware and certainly not a single virus– and that’s on a Mac that lives and works in a mixed environment of Mac, Windows, and Linux PCs.
Yes, Macs can be infected with malware and there are enough antivirus apps out there to tell you malware is a problem somewhere on someone’s Mac. But where?
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Do you run malware detection apps or utilities on your Mac?
Apple ships the Mac with the firewall turned off so even the Mac maker itself isn’t worried about outside hackers making their way into the Mac. Obviously, the problem is the same as it has always been. The user. For Macs that I know have been infected with some variant of malware, it’s usually because the Mac user visited a website or downloaded an infected application.
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The virus or malware didn’t find its way to the Mac. The Mac user brought it home. My Macs from the last century had more viruses and malware than any Mac I’ve owned in the 21st century. Is the malware industry an industry looking for a problem to solve? Or, is there a problem and growing threat that needs a solution?