Antivirus Softwares For Mac

No Operating System is 100% Immune from threats and recently Mac was attacked by a malware leaving lots of its users disturbed.If you still think your Mac is bulletproof, impervious and zip-locked when it comes to viral incursions, let this latest infection fiasco lift the scales from your eyes: Over 600,000 Macs may have succumbed to a Flashback Trojan, a number arrived at after a Russia-based antivirus vendor deployed a method called “sink-holing” to glean distribution information about the malware.

Norton AntiVirus

That’s right, the same people that keep all those PC users safe from the never-ending sea of Windows attacks also offer protection to Mac users.

Features:

• Antivirus
• Internet Worm Protection
• Automatically detects and removes viruses
• Scans and cleans downloaded files and email attachments
• Protects against attacks that target software vulnerabilities
• Delivers industry-leading protection in the background, so you can work and play without any noticeable impact on performance

Price: $49.95

McAfee VirusScan for Mac

McAfee is another big name in virus protection. VirusScan promises to protect you against “all types of viruses and malicious code, even new unknown threats.”

Features:

• Continuous policy enforcement for multiple files, directories, or volumes, including volumes on remote computers connected through the network.
• Protects your Macintosh systems against all types of viruses and other threats, including emerging malware.
• Uses the Mac OS X interface, you can initiate on-demand scanning using file drag and drop
• Scans files as they are accessed to determine if they are infected with malware

Price: $19.99

ProtectMac

For what it’s worth, ProtectMac is definitely one of the more attractive options on the market. I’m much more prone to trust someone with the protection of my Mac if they prove they really understand OS X by actually developing an application that looks and feels right at home on Snow Leopard.

Features:

• Designed by security experts to keep you protected from today’s computer threats.
• Real-time file-access scans, scheduled background scans, user scans, Finder scans and automatic scans of volumes.
• Learns which files and applications are important to you, ensuring that access to these ‘hot’ files is as quick as possible without compromising computer security

Price: $44.99

iAntiVirus

iAntiVirus is attractive, extremely easy to use and claims to be “designed from the ground up to detect and remove Mac specific threats.”

Features:

• Perform a variety of scan types
• Protects your Mac against infections in real time
• Quarantines all detected infections, allowing you to easily view and restore items in the case of a false positive
• Designed to work silently in the background, threats are blocked and removed without any system impact

Price: $29.95

VirusBarrier X6

VirusBarrier X6 definitely has an interface that’s all its own and claims to be the “only antivirus program for Mac that includes full anti-malware protection together with firewall, network protection, anti-phishing, anti-spyware features and more.”

Features:

• Includes a powerful two-way firewall, extending the program’s protection beyond detecting and eradicating malware
• Protects users from intrusions, attacks and booby-trapped web pages
• Detects suspicious actions carried out by applications that may be malicious
• Protects users from phishing web sites that try to trick them into entering personal information
• Users can choose a level of CPU time to be allocated to background scans

Price: $49.95