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That total of 17.5 points, just shy of a perfect 18, is enough to get it named Top Product. AV-Test Institute awards it six points each for Performance and Usability and 5.5 for Performance. If you’re strictly and only protecting Macs, you probably should stick with the free product.Īntivirus protection is the same, naturally, and the labs give it excellent marks.

But paying doesn’t get you much more on a Mac.

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Naturally, users of this tool get all the features found in Avast One Essential for Mac, plus more. Many of the drawings include happy people, clearly pleased to have Avast’s protection. The user interface is very similar across all platforms, with light-colored background, rounded buttons, and a pleasant, airy feel.Įverywhere you look there are line drawings, enlivened with daubs of pastel colors. Both those dark themes are gone in Avast One. Where Avast’s previous products for Windows used a dark gray background, the macOS products went for a rich purple. Intego works on 10.9 (Mavericks) or higher, while ProtectWorks goes all the way back to 10.8 (Mountain Lion). At the other end of the spectrum, a few antivirus tools still support ancient macOS versions for those who can’t (or won’t) upgrade. Kaspersky wants 10.14 (Mojave), and Avira requires 10.15 (Catalina). Most Mac owners keep the OS up to date, so that shouldn’t be a problem.

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To install Avast One you’ll need a Mac running macOS 10.13 (High Sierra). Avast One’s pricing is in line with comparable products.

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With Norton, which costs $5 more, you also get five full VPN licenses, as well as 50GB of storage for your (Windows) backups. Your subscription gets you a broad range of protection including five no-limits VPN licenses. Note, though, that Clario and Intego charge the same for just three licenses. At first glance, Avast One’s price of $99.99 per year for five licenses might seem expensive. You pay $59.99 for Kaspersky, Sophos, or McAfee, but that price gets you three, 10, and unlimited licenses respectively. Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac, Trend Micro, and Webroot are examples. Quite a few Mac antivirus products, like their Windows cousins, cost just under $40 per year. Do note that once that merger is complete, Norton will own Avast, Avira, AVG, and BullGuard. There’s no visible connection between the release of this new product line and the pending merger of Avast with NortonLifeLock.

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This seems aimed at helping users understand if they’ve joined a network, such as at a coffeeshop, that has compromised or attacking devices on it. Other anti-virus software packaged with network monitors either whitelist local network activity, or treat it the same as any malicious Internet attacks. This is unique among anti-virus software we tested, and it looks for devices on a network engaged in malicious behavior.

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Outside of core anti-virus features, the Pro version also offers a Wi-Fi Inspector. (Avast could expand the list to include a few more locations by default, too.) Still, it worked well in testing, and most users keep their most precious documents in a few locations. This is an effective way to protect most users’ critical files, but we prefer Sophos’s active monitoring approach, which looks for patterns of behavior and keeps files from being deleted than one that requires anointing folders. Here, it blocks TextEdit, which hasn’t been whitelisted. Go there for details about competing products and how we tested them.īy restricting specific folders from having files modified by any but approved apps, Avast can reduce the potential for any ransomware attack. Note: This review is part of our best antivirus roundup. Siccing it on drives loaded with other anti-virus products, Avast found test malware I’d downloaded that had wound up in cached files that the anti-virus software on those volumes missed.

It did as well with malicious files on the web, though it didn’t detect some items at the WICAR test site that require active local components to be dangerous. Immediately on decompression of macOS malware from an encrypted archive, Avast detected it, deleted it, and notified me. AV Comparables says Avast detected 99.9 percent of macOS malware and 100 percent of Windows malware. The software is a rare breath of fresh air in a sea of anti-virus products that haven’t worked hard enough to keep up to date with current threats, or haven’t updated the interface to meet modern expectations of presentation and usability.Īvast is danged good at catching malware. The big friendly “You Are Protected” green checkmark on Avast Security Pro’s home screen is certainly a plausible statement. Price comparison from over 24,000 stores worldwide