As a result, both solutions received only 4 points. Only the corporate solutions from Bitdefender and FireEye held up the system and required more resources. For this, they received the maximum 6 points. 3 out of 5 packages were absolutely inconspicuous and had hardly any measurable load on the system. Only the package from Avast slowed the system down slightly and thus had a point taken off: scoring only 5 points.Īmong the protection solutions for corporate users, it was a somewhat different story. Among the 5 products for consumer users, the lab awarded the highest score of 6 points a total of four times. For each installed product, the lab tests whether it takes longer when a large number of files are copied, downloads are performed, applications launched or apps installed. This situation has improved considerably. In the past, protection systems put the brakes on normal operations, such as copying files. Help and protection without system loadĮach package and solution ought to protect the Mac perfectly, without putting a load on the system. The product from FireEye detected 98.6 percent of the attackers, Bitdefender only 97.3 percent. Avast committed minor errors, detecting only 98.6 percent, Bitdefender only 97.3 percent.Īmong the solutions for corporate users, McAfee, Sophos, and Symantec came through error-free, reaching 100% detection. Among the products for private users, Avira, NortonLifeLock and Trend Micro each achieved 100 percent. In the protection test, all test candidates were required to detect brand-new malware samples especially targeting MacOS. Bitdefender and FireEye followed with somewhat weaker results with 15.5 points. McAfee came in slightly behind them at 17.5 points.
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In terms of corporate solutions, Sophos and Symantec received the full 18 points for their good performance. Following close behind with 17.5 points was Bitdefender. For consumer users, the Mac protection packages from Avira, NortonLifeLock and Trend Micro achieved the top score of 18 points. In each test category, a product can earn up to 6 points – thus an overall maximum of 18 points. Afterwards, the usability is tested, i.e. This is followed by the test in which the additional system load of the security package is measured. In the first section, each protection package and each solutions is required to detect and eliminate totally new MacOS malware samples. The test is divided up into three key areas: protection, performance, and usability. The corporate solutions examined came from Bitdefender, FireEye, McAfee, Sophos, and Symantec.
The 5 consumer protection packages evaluated were from Avast, Avira, Bitdefender, NortonLifeLock and Trend Micro. The test platform used for this was MacOS Catalina version 10.15. In September 2020, the lab at AV-TEST examined security products for consumer Mac users, along with corporate solutions. Now it is already at 700,000, and we still haven't reached the end of 2020. The number of malware samples registered by AV-TEST ranged between 50,000 and 100,000 over the past two years. After all, the amount of malware samples strictly targeting Macs are growing day by day. Even MacOS can really use some reinforcement through antivirus software.