It also lacks security tools such as a firewall and parental controls, which other Mac-focused antivirus products, such as Intego, do include. While MacKeeper is a good antivirus program that comes with a lot of useful features that work well, it’s missing some important features - it doesn’t offer any anti-phishing protection, which I would consider an essential security feature these days. ID theft protection (email monitoring).Its antivirus engine is very good at detecting malware, and its real-time protection ensures your device is always protected from new threats - during my tests, MacKeeper was able to detect 99% of the malware samples in my testing, which is comparable to some of the best macOS antiviruses on the market, like Intego, McAfee, and Norton. Its main window presents a system status (Protected, typically) along with buttons for starting scans, scheduling scans, your quarantine, system activity and your license (more on that later).MacKeeper offers a range of security, privacy, and tune-up features for Macs, all inside a simple and very user-friendly interface. InterfaceĪvira Free Antivirus for Mac offers the same clean, modern look you see in many third-party Mac apps. The average for all eight Mac antivirus products tested was 36:30. By contrast, the longest time we saw was 72:45 (Kaspersky), while the shortest was 1:25 ( Bitdefender).

That's on the high end.Īvira Free Antivirus for Mac's full scans completed in an average of 30 minutes and 13 seconds, which falls in the middle of the times we recorded. While Avira's malware-detection score is good, it's not quite the best.ĭuring Avira's quick scans, the OpenOffice test finished in 2 minutes and 37 seconds, which indicates a system slowdown of 10 percent. AVG's 12.1 percent was the second highest we recorded, and Kaspersky's 4.5 percent the lowest. MORE: 7 Easy Ways to Get Your Identity Stolenĭuring a full-system scan, the OpenOffice test finished in 2 minutes and 41 seconds, signifying a performance dip of 18.25 percent, the highest we saw. That's a passive system hit of 1.1 percent, on the lower end of the range we found among the eight products we reviewed.

After we installed Avira Free Antivirus for Mac on our MacBook, the OpenOffice test finished in an average of 2 minutes and 24 seconds, 1.5 seconds longer than the same system took before installation.

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