The former is close enough to 100 percent to be safe the latter is better than not running any security software, but still leaves a higher margin of error than it really should.ĪV-Test also evaluates a program’s impact on system resources, as well as whether a program finds false positives during its scans. Somewhere in the middle were Intego Mac Security X9 10.9, at 99.4 percent efficacy, and F-Secure Safe 17.0, at 93.8 percent. Even by AV-Test’s relatively lenient standards (it will recommend anything with a 10 out of a possible 18 points in its Windows AV evaluations), the company called this performance “unacceptable.” On the other hand, Comodo Antivirus 2.2 caught only 38.1 percent of Mac malicious software.

If you have one of these programs, you can rest easy. They caught all 514 pieces of Mac malware that AV-Test threw at them. Avast Security 12.9, Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac 6.1, Kaspersky Lab Internet Security for Mac 18.0, Sophos Home 1.2, Symantec Norton Security 7.5 and Trend Micro Antivirus 8.0 all earned perfect scores in system protection.

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