In November, it launched Cleaner, a hard drive cleanup program.
#AVG ANTIVIRUS FOR MAC 10.9 FOR MAC#
Of course, it remains to be seen how well AVG AntiVirus for Mac will do. AV-Test also reported that the PC app had no significant impact on system performance and battery life, earning 6 out of 6. The average detection rate for all programs AV-Test evaluated was 95.2, and AV-Test ranked AVG's malware detection at 5 points out of a possible 6. All anti-virus software tends to do well on such tests, however. In July 2013 tests of the PC version, independent lab AV-Test found that it caught 98.9 percent of 1,972 malware samples that had emerged in the preceding four weeks. The prospects for AVG's Mac product are good, if its PC performance is any guide.
MORE: Top Mac Anti-Virus Suites Tested & Rated AVG has stated that it has 172 million active users of its PC AntiVirus software.Īmong AVG AntiVirus for Mac's main features such as auto updates real time scanning is a potentially handy one that lets users scan individual files or folders by simply dragging and dropping them onto an icon. Mavericks is a free upgrade for OS X Leopard (10.6.8), Lion (10.7) or Mountain Lion. The new software, simply called AVG AntiVirus for Mac, is compatible with both the latest Mavericks (OS X 10.9) operating system and its predecessor Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8). There are a few anti-virus/anti-malware options for Macs, such as the free Sophos Antivirus for Mac, and today Apple users got another option.ĪVG Technologies announced that its AVG AntiVirus software, long a popular free download for Windows PCs, finally made the jump to Mac computers today (Dec. As Apple's computers get more popular with consumers, so they do with miscreants.
By now, the notion that Macs are free of malware is recognized as an outdated false sense of security.
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