Mcfee antivirus for mac full#

Mcfee antivirus for mac full#

To test its scanning ability, I left downloaded malware on a separate drive used to test other antivirus software packages, and then performed a full scan from McAfee’s app. Unzipping a piece of malware results in an immediate block of the archive’s contents and a pop-up message with a warning. It also identified a mix of Mac and Windows malware from the WICAR archive. When I downloaded known macOS malware from Objective See’s repository, Total Protection identified every example I tried immediately on decompression from an encrypted ZIP archive. That said, in our own hands-on spot-testing, Total Protection provided good basic protection. Go there for details about competing products and how we tested them. Note: This review is part of our best antivirus roundup. Moreover, the software is the only package we’ve reviewed in early 2018 with no score from either AV-TEST or AV Comparables’s 2017 testing, so we can’t provide an apples-to-apples score on macOS and Windows malware and macOS unwanted/adware apps.

Its introductory rate of $45 includes a one-year subscription for up to 10 computers plus a password vault system for desktop and mobile called True Key.īut after those first twelve months, when the price rises to the regular annual rate of $100, Total Protection’s lack of features relative to other competitors makes it hard to recommend as a long-term option.

McAfee Total Protection is one of the best bargains among the options for antivirus and malware-protection software-but only for the first year. Price comparison from over 24,000 stores worldwide