The versions available at the Mac App Store might be limited in functionality, as they cannot access all APIs.'ĪV-TEST provides test results for malware detection, both on-access and on-demand false positives impact on system performance and ancillary features, specifically anti-spam, anti-phishing, personal firewall, safe browsing, parental control, backup and encryption. The G Data and Norman products use the Bitdefender engine and the Panda product is based on the Intego product.ĪV-TEST used '.the products which are offered at the AV vendor's websites as downloads.
Five of the products (avast!, Sophos, AVG, Comodo and Avira) are free. You can find complete results on their site. Symantec Norton Internet Security 5.6 (25).That's why AV-TEST just completed a test of 18 products in this space: The existence of quite a few companies in the business of Mac anti-malware software shows that there's enough demand for it too. But there is malware out there for the Mac and it does hit users in the real world, if less often and less intensely than on the PC. For the Mac they identify less than 100 per month. Every day, independent test lab captures more than 400,000 new malware samples for Windows and 5,000 new samples for Android.
