Its no-nonsense approach for a free suite makes it easy to navigate and understand, and, most importantly, it gets of your way to do its job allowing you to do yours. It offers excellent security, and protection from viruses and the worst kinds of malware. If you don’t want to pay for an anti-virus suite then Avira Free is a great option. The only one worth pointing out would be the Modules section that allows you to turn on or off certain features including real-time protection, protection cloud (checking the “fingerprint” of suspicious files with Avira’s cloud database), firewall, and the USB Scanner (not available in Avira Free). Avira’s Internet Security tier costs 57.99 a year with one device, and its Prime tier is 99.99 a year with five devices. Avast Premium Security can be yours for 49.99 a year, and you can use it to cover up to ten devices. Browse with complete confidence: we block malicious websites, drive-by downloads, and hijack attempts on your web browser not to mention phishing attacks via. The rest of the items in the navigation pane are pretty straightforward. Avira Pro comes with a price tag of 44.99 a year per device and 70.99 if you wish to cover up to five devices. The Quarantine section in Avira for Mac Pro. You can also drag-and-drop files into this area to scan it for any potential malware.
At the top it shows whether your computer is currently protected or not, there is also a button to initiate a new scan with options to do a quick, full, or custom scan. I tested phishing protection on the Mac alongside my Windows test the results (not surprisingly) were exactly the same.
#Avira antivirus for mac review install#
This functions as a dashboard of sorts as well as the area to initiate a malware scan. Avira Free Antivirus for Mac doesnt include phishig protection, but Mac users are free to install the Browser Safety extension in Chrome or Firefox. It uses the common left-rail and primary pane design. Interface and featuresĪvira’s interface is plain but effective. Avira Free Antivirus for Mac provides lightweight real-time malware scanning, good anti-phishing protection, an excellent free password manager, and a decent VPN. We’d advise users to install the add-on since the web is a primary vector for attacks. Interestingly, when we installed Avira’s free browser add-on Avira Browser Safety there were four additional detections. Over on Wicar there were about 11 “no results” from these tests, which means we tried to open a malicious web-based attack and we ended up with a blank page. It detected a Trojan with no trouble as soon as we tried to unzip the folder, and the same went for Macransom ransomware.
#Avira antivirus for mac review archive#
Our own malware spot tests using the Objective See archive and were pretty good.
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