For free! Don't put your friends and family at risk by unknowingly passing malware along. Kaspersky Lab 1st places 72 Participated in 86 tests/reviews TOP 3 finishes 91 Notes: According to summary results of independent tests in 2017 Scan running apps, scan critical locations, scan a specific location or scan the entire system, the award-winning Bitdefender engines will find that malware. Our products were awarded 72 firsts and achieved 78 top-three finishes.
![]() Kaspersky Reviews 2017 Mac Malware AsFinds Mac malware as well as Windows viruses and other threats Sports full award-winning Bitdefender engines Kaspersky Internet Security 2017 Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2017 Kaspersky SafeKids for iPhone PCMag Editors Choice: Top Award Kaspersky SafeKids for Android AV-Test: Parental Control for Scans a custom location (Tip: try scanning by drag-and-drop) Straightforward security status and recommendations Searches for malware even in archives, various other file types (i.e., PDF, PKG, ZIP, RAR, etc.) Quick scan! Fast scan system areas that are prone to infections![]() So what else is new? Shareware apps have worked like this for years. Like others they have adopted an annual subscription for their full suite. MalwareBytes, for instance, is now only free in the manual version. Many malware detection utilities have a "lite" version that you run manually and offer a paid version that runs all the time in the background for more complete protection. This is a perfectly sound business practice. While a bit confusing, it doesn't disadvantage any long time TextWrangler users.As for Bitdefender and MalwareBytes, they have offered a free version to develop mind share on the Mac platform. It's not bait-and-switch, it's a way for them to consolidate and streamline their development efforts. But you can still run BBEdit as a free app with a subset of the full app's capabilities, just like TextWrangler. In the meantime, Norton has walked away from the Mac—again. It's a tribute to the ongoing success of the Mac that they are now playing here as well. Sophos, Bitdefender and MalwareBytes are all established companies on the Windows platform. The developer is competing with the big guys so I don't blame him for trying to monetize his work.FYI: Sophos Home for Mac is still free, but there's no telling how long this will last. Unlike MalwareBytes and Bitdefender, there is no longer a free version of ClamXav. So I have to give it high marks for providing this deep scan in the free version. It takes quite a while to run there are other modes that are less time consuming. It has a deep scan capability not available in the other free apps. Outlook for mac dont steal focusEducation and information is the best defense, (as with so many things in life). When we are all better informed when it comes to this important area of security in this day of cyber threats, we all benefit. In fact this is exactly the kind of site and test results, that vendors DON'T want you to see, even the ones that do well on the test (because no product is 100%).I am posting this to support the Mac Community. The fact that the product rankings change constantly AND that the results are very specific and listed in detail, further support that this site and the tester are very objective. Historical results are maintained so you can compare over time, and you do see product results change with each test (done every month to every 3 months depending on whether there are any new reported malware in the field, and a sample can be obtained for testing).I've done a bit of research on the site and tester, to make sure it was not one of those 'sponsored' sites by a vendor that are made to appear as objective, neutral reviews. Remember, an A/V product rests on two main things, the scanning engine AND the malware database. You WILL see trends, with some products consistently doing well and others not so much, and some moving up and down. If after doing some research and being advised not to use MacKeeper, someone still chooses to do so, then you can't help that, but hopefully it wasn't because there wasn't information available.My aim is not to support or dissuade anyone about a particular product, you pick / use or don't use whatever product you want, and live with the consequences, just remember that your decision can effect others, by virtue of whether you are part of stopping the spread, or being a part of it.I highly recommend you don't just look at the current results, but look at the past ones as well. This site only ONLY addresses virus detection results, it does not in general make any conclusions or post results regarding performance, installation, support, UI, etc. Conversely, a vendor that does maintain a current database might still not be effective if the program itself is buggy.
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