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Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July/August 2014 www.av-comparatives.org 1 Mac Security Test & Review Mac Security Test &

Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July/August 2014 www.av-comparatives.org 10 Again, this persists until the user clicks on it. When a

Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July/August 2014 www.av-comparatives.org 11 Avira Free Antivirus for Mac Installation We note tha

Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July/August 2014 www.av-comparatives.org 12 We feel this is a very effective way of making the progr

Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July/August 2014 www.av-comparatives.org 13 The pop-up alert seems rather uninformative to us

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Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July/August 2014 www.av-comparatives.org 15 The vendor informs us that they are planning to optimise

Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July/August 2014 www.av-comparatives.org 16 Please note the summary, “There are still 73 acti

Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July/August 2014 www.av-comparatives.org 17 Verdict Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac combines very

Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July/August 2014 www.av-comparatives.org 18 ESET Cyber Security Pro Additional features Phishing pr

Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July/August 2014 www.av-comparatives.org 19 Finder context menu In the standard configuration,

Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July/August 2014 www.av-comparatives.org 2 Contents Introduction: Macs and Security Software ...

Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July/August 2014 www.av-comparatives.org 20 When a flash drive containing malware is scanned,

Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July/August 2014 www.av-comparatives.org 21 Intego Mac Premium Bundle X8 Additional features In ad

Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July/August 2014 www.av-comparatives.org 22 A restart is required after the setup process. W

Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July/August 2014 www.av-comparatives.org 23 When we attempted to update VirusBarrier (the antiv

Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July/August 2014 www.av-comparatives.org 24 Scanning Full, quick and scheduled scans can be r

Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July/August 2014 www.av-comparatives.org 25 Verdict Intego VirusBarrier provides outstanding prot

Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July/August 2014 www.av-comparatives.org 26 Kaspersky Internet Security for Mac Additional features

Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July/August 2014 www.av-comparatives.org 27 Maintenance Updates can be run by clicking the uppermost

Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July/August 2014 www.av-comparatives.org 28 Malware protection test Mac malware detected: 97% False

Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July/August 2014 www.av-comparatives.org 29 Kromtech MacKeeper Additional features Anti-theft; sys

Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July/August 2014 www.av-comparatives.org 3 Introduction: Macs and Security Software In January 2014,

Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July/August 2014 www.av-comparatives.org 30 The System Status report displayed 1,559 “issues

Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July/August 2014 www.av-comparatives.org 31 Status may be identified as “Aggravated” or even “

Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July/August 2014 www.av-comparatives.org 32 We could not find a means of selecting all ite

Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July/August 2014 www.av-comparatives.org 33 Sophos Antivirus for Mac Additional features Phishing pro

Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July/August 2014 www.av-comparatives.org 34 Scanning Full and custom scans can be run from the

Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July/August 2014 www.av-comparatives.org 35 We found the knowledge base articles to be very cl

Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July/August 2014 www.av-comparatives.org 36 Summary Seven of the products we have reviewed receive our

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Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July/August 2014 www.av-comparatives.org 38 Copyright and Disclaimer This publication is Copyright ©

Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July/August 2014 www.av-comparatives.org 4 Review of Security Software for OS X 10.9 Mavericks We h

Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July/August 2014 www.av-comparatives.org 5 Review format Here we have outlined the features and funct

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Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July/August 2014 www.av-comparatives.org 9 Finder context menu avast! adds a scan entry to the Finder