McAfee Internet Security for Mac Review. PC users have been trusting McAfee for over a decade to keep their computers safe on the often-insecure Windows platform. The combination of anti-virus protection, firewall and anti-phishing scanner in the McAfee Internet Security for Mac product is a good one. McAfee, unfortunately, does not do so well as its competitors at detecting Mac malware. We think this is a nice package but the effectiveness of the scanning could be improved. McAfee Review. One of the top brands in the antivirus market since it’s inception, Mcafee Antivirus (named after the company founded by the product’s famed creator John McAfee, who resigned from the company in 1994) quickly rose to heights in the late 90’s as. One subscription gives you unlimited licenses to protect all your Macs with McAfee AntiVirus Plus, and your Windows, Android, and iOS devices, too, and it aces our phishing protection test.
Mcafee Internet Security For Mac Review
Editor's note: Our original McAfee Total Protection review published in April 2018 was mistakenly based on McAfee's enterprise edition of antivirus software. This new review evaluates the proper consumer software and our verdict has been updated accordingly. We deeply regret the error.
As with many cross-platform security products, McAfee starts the installation process online. You log in or create your account, enter your registration code, and download to your Mac.
Mcafee Antivirus For Mac Review
Norton’s support for the current macOS and the two previous versions means it has the same requirement, at least until macOS Mojave arrives. For those who, for one reason or another, run an old operating system, ClamXAV, ESET, or may be a better choice, with support back to Snow Leopard (10.6). No Results From Antivirus Labs The team of researchers and testers at an independent antivirus testing lab can throw a lot of resources at the task of determining the efficacy of an antivirus tool. I follow four such labs for my reviews; just two of them release regular reports on Mac antivirus, however. Furthermore, since my hands-on testing setup, developed over a period of years, is mostly Windows-based, those two sets of lab results are even more important to my Mac antivirus reviews. When I first evaluated McAfee’s Mac product, it had certification from AV-Comparatives, with 100 percent detection of Mac malware and 94 percent detection of Windows malware, but next time around it wasn’t tested.