O melhor software antivírus para Mac em 2021

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O Kaspersky Internet Security para Mac tem taxas de detecção de malware perfeitas, protege sua webcam e elimina rastros ing cookies.

Oferece o melhor controle parental de qualquer um dos melhores programas antivírus para Mac, com filtros de conteúdo, limites de tempo e monitoramento de dados pessoais. O Kaspersky Internet Security para Mac pode até desligar a webcam em um MacBook, um recurso que a própria Apple não oferece, e a interface do programa é detalhada, mas fácil de usar.

Existem algumas desvantagens. O gerenciador de senhas incluído é limitado a 15 entradas, a menos que você pague um extra de $ 15 por ano. Da mesma forma, o serviço VPN oferece apenas 300 MB de dados por dia; dados ilimitados custam $ 30 por ano. (Pelo menos o Kaspersky não tenta persistentemente fazer um upsell para você.) O mecanismo de detecção de malware também prejudica bastante o desempenho do sistema durante as varreduras.

Leia nosso completo Revisão do Kaspersky Internet Security para Mac .

O Norton 360 Deluxe tem muitos recursos úteis extras, incluindo serviço VPN ilimitado e um gerenciador de senha ilimitado, dois recursos pelos quais seus rivais fazem você pagar mais. Ele também tem um firewall bidirecional, um otimizador de sistema e monitoramento dark-web de seus dados pessoais.

Mais importante, o Norton 360 Deluxe tem um pequeno impacto no desempenho do sistema, suporte técnico sempre disponível e, por último, mas não menos importante, a detecção perfeita de malware de softwares Mac e Windows.

Você pagará muito por esses luxos, no entanto, embora a licença de cinco dispositivos permita distribuir o custo por vários Macs (ou PCs). A interface, embora muito detalhada, também é mais complicada do que deveria. E desejamos que os controles dos pais, a proteção da webcam e o software de backup, que vêm integrados à versão do Norton 360 Deluxe para Windows, funcionem também para Macs.

Leia nosso completo Avaliação do Norton 360 Deluxe .

O Avast Free Mac Security tem muitos recursos extras úteis, incluindo um gerenciador de senhas ilimitado, um scanner de unidade externa e d um bloqueador de sites maliciosos. Ao contrário da maioria dos programas antivírus do Mac, ele verifica as mensagens de e-mail e anexos em busca de malware.

Embora a detecção de malware do Avast seja boa, não é perfeita. Da mesma forma, seu impacto no desempenho do sistema é uma mistura, com muito pouco dreno de fundo, mas um impacto pesado durante as varreduras ativas.

A interface do Avast Free Mac Security é fácil de navegar, mas prepare-se para ficar desapontado. Muitos dos itens mais atraentes, incluindo reversões de ransomware, estão disponíveis apenas para usuários pagos.

O otimizador de sistema é apenas uma provocação-você pode escanear seu Mac em busca de desordem, mas você tem que pagar para ver os resultados. Você também será constantemente importunado para comprar outros programas Avast, como seu serviço VPN e seu software anti-rastreamento.

Leia nosso completo Análise de segurança do Avast Free Mac .

Intego has been making Mac antiv irus software since 1997, and its Mac Security X9 offers very fast scans, thorough malware detection and a full-fledged firewall. The program also supports legacy macOS versions going all the way back to 2013’s Mavericks.

Intego Mac Security X9 is a solid piece of software that does its job well, even if its user interface is a bit bare-bones. You can even toss in effective Windows antivirus protection for a small extra fee.

But Intego’s relatively high price doesn’t quite match its sparse feature set. While other paid Mac antivirus programs might toss in browser extensions, a password manager or even a VPN to justify the purchase, Intego’s extra features aren’t too different from what you’d get with free Mac antivirus software.

Read our full Intego Mac Internet Security X9 review.

Sophos Home Premium can protect up to 10 computers, Mac or Windows, for a low price and its parental web filters can stop kids from seeing objectionable material online. It also has dedicated protections against ransomware and for your webcam and microphone.

Its background system impact is more noticeable than its competitors’, although nowhere near the system impact of some Windows antivirus products. It’s got a relatively small impact during active scans.

The interface is minimal and mostly lives in the menu bar; for more controls, there’s a powerful online management tool. Tech support is 12 hours a day, Monday through Friday, and limited to email and chat interactions.

We just wish we had some third-party lab-test data about the efficacy of Sophos’Mac malware scanner, which might place it higher among the best Mac antivirus software programs.

Read our full Sophos Home Premium review.

McAfee Antivirus Plus’s generous 10-device license means you can provide antivirus protection for a whole family of Macs (and/or Windows PCs and Android phones) for a reasonable yearly fee.

B ut the program doesn’t have a lot of extra features for Macs, which makes it hard to recommend for Apple customers. All Mac users really get is a firewall, while Windows users get ransomware protection, cryptojacking protection and a system optimizer. McAfee Antivirus Plus also has a heavy system impact during scans and a confusing interface.

Furthermore, we don’t know really how well McAfee Antivirus Plus protects against Mac malware. There haven’t been any recent Mac malware-detection testing scores for McAfee, so its protection powers are impossible to compare with those of the best Mac antivirus software.

Read our full McAfee Antivirus Plus review.

Despite its fast scans, light impact on system performance, and bright, easy-to-use interface, Malwarebytes for Mac Premium feels half cooked.

The program doesn’t have many of the extra features its competitors offer, such as malicious-website blocking and email scanning. And because its malware-blocking skills haven’t been evaluated in lab tests, we don’t actually know how good Malwarebytes is at protecting your Mac.

However, we do recommend the free version, Malwarebytes for Mac. It is not truly antivirus software, but an excellent post-infection cleanup tool that also gets rid of the annoying adware and unwanted programs that antivirus software tends to miss.

You might want to let the two-week Malwarebytes Premium trial expire and instead use the free tier alongside some of the best Mac antivirus software.

Read our full Malwarebytes for Mac Premium review.

How to choose the best Mac antivirus software for you

First, figure out what you need. Do you have several Macs and Windows PCs at home? Then a multiplatform, multi-device bundle such as Norton 360 Deluxe, Sophos Home Premium or McAfee Antivirus Plus might be ideal. Bitdefender and Kaspersky also offer multiplatform bundles that come with the same software we’ve reviewed here.

Or do you have just one, two or three Macs? If so, there’s no need to go overboard: The one-or three-device versions of Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac or Kaspersky Internet Security for Mac should do you just fine.

Do you have young children or teenagers living at home? Consider Mac antivirus software that comes with parental controls or web-content filters, like Kaspersky Internet Security for Mac or Sophos Home Premium.

Then you have to figure out how much you can afford. If the answer is”nothing,”then try Avast Free Mac Security or the free tier of Sophos Home. The trade-off is that they aren’t as good as many of the paid programs.

But if you can afford to spend $50 a year, then you’ve got a lot of options. Most of the antivirus companies frequently offer discounts of up to 60%, both straight from their websites or through online retailers.

You’ll have to let them automatically charge your credit card the full price when your subscription ends, but you can often uncheck that option beforehand, or override it by buying another subscription on sale first.

How we test the best Mac antivirus programs

To find the best Mac antivirus software, we evaluate ease of use, interface and performance impact. We installed each AV program on the same Late 2013 MacBook Pro with Retina Display running macOS 10.12 Sierra. It was powered by a 2.6-GHz Intel Core i7 processor and had 8GB of RAM and 70GB of data stored on a 512GB SSD.

We conducted our own tests based on how much each of the best Mac antivirus programs affected our laptop’s performance. To do this, we used our custom OpenOffice benchmark, which matches 20,000 names and addresses in a spreadsheet. We measured how long it took to run a quick scan and a full scan while the laptop crunched numbers in the background.

We assessed how easy each of the best Mac antivirus programs was to use and the number of useful extra features it offered (including free add-on software).

To gauge how effective each package was at stopping malware, we used the results of evaluations conducted by AV-Test, a well-regarded independent product-testing lab in Germany, and results from other tests conducted by AV-Comparatives, a similarly well-respected company in Austria. (Both labs also test the best Android antivirus apps.)

iOS antivirus apps

A lot of people want iOS antivirus software for their iPhones and iPads. The truth is that such software doesn’t exist. Apple won’t let third-party apps examine other iOS apps, or even inspect new apps as they’re installed. Anything that claims to be antivirus software swiftly gets kicked out of the iTunes App Store.

Many major antivirus vendors, including F-Secure, McAfee, Norton and Trend Micro, do have”security”apps in the App Store. But these check web links for known malicious sites, locate lost devices or pretend to protect your privacy. None scans an iPhone for malware.

There has been real iOS malware that affects non-jailbroken devices, but it’s very rarely cropped up. In each instance, Apple has pushed out a new version of iOS to stop the malware in a matter of days or weeks. Generally, if you keep your Apple mobile device updated to the latest version of iOS, you should be safe.