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Download Avira Free Antivirus 2019 Award-winning free antivirus for Windows Top-of-the-line malware protection – cleans adware & removes spyware Best-in-class ransomware protection – detects all known threats Repairs damaged files.

. Pros Top scores from AV-Comparatives, good scores from AV-Test. Cleaned most Windows malware in hands-on tests. Cons Protection against malicious and fraudulent URLs requires separate download.

Mediocre score in antiphishing test. Bottom Line Avira Free Antivirus for Mac costs nothing, and it gets good scores from the independent labs, but it's not the best free Mac antivirus we've tested. Though some Mac enthusiasts might argue the contrary, Macs aren't invulnerable. You need protection on your macOS devices.

Sure, Windows and Android are much more popular targets, but Apple machines get hit with malware too, including nasty variants like ransomware. If you don't care to pay for antivirus protection on your Mac, consider Avira Free Antivirus for Mac. It doesn't cost a penny, and it did well in tests by the independent labs. Scheduled scanning is enabled by default, once per week. You can add more scheduled quick or full scans, on a daily or weekly basis.

Clicking Modules in the left-side menu displays the status of four security modules: Real-Time Protection, Protection Cloud, Firewall, and USB Scanner (the last is reserved for the Pro edition of this product). Seeing the label Firewall, you might get the impression that Avira includes a firewall component, like Intego, McAfee, and Norton. However, this component simply controls the built-in macOS firewall component. Pricing and OS Support. There's a big range of prices for Mac-based antivirus support. At the high end, Intego lists at $99.99 per year to protect three Macs, and asks $89.99 per year for five cross-platform licenses. Granted, these two are security suites, going beyond what a simple antivirus utility offers.

The most common pricing plan among products we've reviewed is $39.99 per year for one license and $59.99 for three. As for Avira, you don't pay a thing. Like, it's totally free. You do need a modern operating system to use this antivirus. Avira requires macOS El Capitan (10.11) or better. If you're using an old operating system, you may need to consider a different Mac antivirus. Sophos support runs back to Mountain Lion (10.8), Webroot works on Lion (10.7) or better, and goes all the way back to Snow Leopard (10.6).

Good Malware Protection Lab Scores When evaluating Windows antivirus utilities for, I use a wide range of tests that I've developed over the years. I don't have anything similar in hand for the macOS platform, as my many hand-coded testing tools are Windows-only. For Mac antivirus, I necessarily rely more heavily on the independent testing labs to know which products are effective.

Fortunately, most of them do just fine. Two of the independent antivirus testing labs I follow include macOS products in their testing, and both have Avira on their test roster. Certifies Avira for malware protection, with the best possible scores. It achieved 100 percent protection against Mac-centric malware (to be fair, most of the products in this test reached 100 percent).

The experts at rate antivirus utilities, both for Windows and macOS, on three criteria: how well they protect against malware, how little they impact performance, and how carefully they avoid flagging valid programs as malicious. With six points available in each category, the maximum score is 18. Avira earned 5.5, 5.0, and 6.0 points in the three criteria respectively, for a total of 16.5 points. Others have done better. Bitdefender, and Trend Micro all earned a perfect 18 from AV-Test, as well as 100 percent from AV-Comparatives. You may notice that there aren't any results in the table for Sophos, ESET, McAfee, and a few others. These products all earned high marks in past test reports, but the labs vary their product selection, and the latest reports didn't include them.

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When I challenged Avira to clean up a USB drive containing the samples from my own Windows-centered testing, it finished quickly, eliminating 82 percent of the samples. That's better than most of the products I've tested in this way, though caught 86 percent and Sophos managed 100 percent. In addition, Sophos jumped right in to scan the USB drive, without waiting for me to request a scan. Protection Against Phishing and Malicious URLs Phishing URLs are frauds that attempt to steal your login credentials by imitating sensitive websites.

Phishing is a platform-agnostic crime—you can fall victim to fraud using absolutely any device that has a browser. That includes your Mac. Preventing access to such URLs, or to URLs containing malicious code, can be the first line of defense for an antivirus tool, whether it's Mac. Avira Free Antivirus does not in itself protect against malicious or fraudulent URLs, but it does give users easy access to Avira's Browser Safety extensions for Chrome and Firefox.

I installed the Chrome extension and proceeded to test Avira's browser-based protection. For this test, I gather the newest phishing URLs I can find, especially ones that haven't yet been analyzed and blacklisted. I use one of my hand-coded tools to launch each URL and record results in three browsers, Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer, each protected by the browser's own built-in protection. As for the Mac product, my analysis tool works strictly on Windows, so I test by hand on the Mac. I ran this test simultaneously with my test of Avira Antivirus and on Windows. For testing purposes, I discard any URL that causes an error message in any of the browsers, and any URL that doesn't actively attempt to capture login credentials. Analyzing the remaining URLs, the undeniable phishing URLs, I found that Avira's detection rate came at 66 percent, as it did under Windows.

That makes sense; the Chrome plug-in that handles phishing protection isn't platform-specific. That 66 percent score is better than the 47 percent Avira earned last time I put it to the test. However, it's in the bottom half for macOS antivirus utilities that include phishing protection.

Recently managed 100 percent protection in this test. On the plus side, Browser Safety marks up unsafe links in search results, so you can avoid clicking them. It doesn't offer the detailed analysis that you get from Norton, but then, most of the time you don't need to see those details. Should You Go Pro? At the bottom of the main screen's left-side menu is a highlighted item titled 'Get Pro.'

Clicking it gets you a laundry list of the virtues of the Pro edition. These include scanning USB devices, protecting emails, and full-scale phone support, along with more nebulous benefits such as 'award-winning shields against dangerous threats' and protection enhancement using 'smart learning algorithms.' As with the free and Pro editions on Windows, perhaps even more so, the added benefits don't seem to merit the price. The free edition's real-time protection scans a file that enters your Mac via USB either when it's copied to the local drive or when it executes. Likewise, when you save or launch a malicious email attachment, real-time protection jumps into the fray. Personal tech support is nice—free users only get FAQs and community support forums—but not $44.99 per year nice.

I didn't see a reason to review the Pro edition separately. Free and Simple Having heard for years that Macs don't get malware, Mac users may find paying money for antivirus protection hard to justify. It's a false assumption—macOS malware exists—but that still doesn't mean that you must pay.

Avira Free Antivirus for Mac does a decent job, and it doesn't cost a dime. But you should also look at Sophos Home (for Mac). Like Avira, Sophos has certification from two independent labs. It wiped out all our Windows malware samples, beating out even its paid competitors. And in our antiphishing test it does much better than Avira.

You don't have to pay for solid AV protection. Got high marks from our testers for its ability to stop threats, for example. And also performed well.

The software that comes installed on new Windows computers is not quite as strong as those first three, but it still offers considerable protection. The paid programs have extra benefits. Shelling out money—generally $30 to $80—does get you a few perks, says Richard Fisco, who heads CR’s antivirus testing program. Case in point: In addition to its top-rated malware-fighting abilities, offers a firewall, a spam filter, and anti- features.

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Others provide, and email and/or banking protection. Another benefit? With a paid program, you don't get peppered with pop-up ads asking you to upgrade from the free version, Fisco says. “They can be almost as annoying as adware that constantly bugs you to buy something,' he adds. Opening your wallet does not guarantee you a better product. The $60 and $50 suites both scored lower than Windows Defender without offering any meaningful extras.

The $50 at least had email protection and spam and parental filters. Yes, Macs need AV, too. Yes, it's true, there isn’t as much malware aimed at Macs, but that doesn't mean Apple fans can ignore cyber threats.

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They do exist in greater numbers, 'And if you don't protect yourself and you get an infected file,' says Fisco, 'you can pass that malware on to a friend with a Windows PC.” For those reasons, Consumer Reports now rates antivirus products for Mac computers. If you’re looking for a free option, we recommend. The top paid options include. Download the software from trusted sites. If you click on a pop-up ad promising free AV protection, you can easily end up with malware on your computer instead. It's a common scam employed by cyber criminals. To be safe, go straight to the source and manually type in the web address for the company that offers the product you want to use.