Antivirus Protectionīitdefender Antivirus for Mac uses signature-based malware detection, behavioral-pattern recognition and cloud-based data collection to detect Mac viruses and adware. It supports macOS 10.12 Sierra, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, 10.10 Yosemite and 10.9 Mavericks, and requires 1GB of RAM, 400MB of available disk space and an Intel CPU.
Costs and What’s Coveredīitdefender Antivirus for Mac costs $39.99 per year to protect one Mac, and $59.99 per year to protect three. While Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac is not the best option available (that’s Kaspersky Internet Security for Mac), its sleek design makes it one of our favorites. Still, the system impact is small compared with Windows antivirus software. The software’s sole downside is the largest system impact in passive mode among the eight products we tested. Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac offers top-shelf malware detection and protects files from ransomware.īitdefender Antivirus for Mac combines excellent malware protection with a new ransomware-protection tool that’s easy to use.
