Reviews Antivirus Mac Costs 40

Pricing and conclusion G Data Antivirus for Mac costs 40 for a year for a single device, and it goes up to an eminently reasonable 72 for five.

Anyone looking for added features will be disappointed, but those looking for added protection--and little else--should take a look at this suite.

This simple antivirus app offers protection without overcomplicating itself.

There are no extra frills like a VPN, encrypted cloud storage, or system maintenance utilities, for example.

Protection tests If simplicity is what youre looking for then G Data is worth looking at.

Currently, there are no third-party tests pitting G Data against Mac malware.

In our spot tests, however, we found that G Data was able to detect malware once it was unzipped.

It wasnt quite as fast at detection as other suites, but it always threw up an alert by the time wed opened the infected folder.

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G Data was still capable enough to prevent those additional files from being activated even though they werent caught right away.

Once problematic files are in quarantine, you can decide whether to try and disinfect the files or delete them outright.

While there isnt much information about its Mac malware-busting chops, G Data does have a reputation when it comes to Windows malware.

G Data for Mac earned a 99.4 percent protection rate in May and 100 percent in June for AV-Tests 0-day test, and 100 percent in both May and June for the widespread and prevalent malware test.

AV-Comparatives said G Data blocked 100 percent of Windows malware with three false positives in its malware protection test with more than 10,000 samples in its March 2020 tests.

In its real-world protection from February-May with 754 samples of 0-day and unknown malware, G Data blocked 99.1 percent of threats with seven false positives.

The primary dashboard Security Status in the left railfeatures a large green check mark when the Mac is protected, and a big red X when there are issues.

Reviews Antivirus License Is Valid

This area will also list whether your license is valid for the security suite, and how many files you have in quarantine.

Next is the Scan for infections option which has a big yellow button.

If you want to scan a single folder or set of folders, you can drag and drop them onto the scan button.

Another alternative is to click the Scan Scope option to add files and folders.

This section also has an Exclusions list if you want to stop G Data from scanning a large set of photos or videos, or other large files on your system.

Finally, there are Advanced scan options where you can choose to automatically scan network shares or time machine drives.

They monitor and protect your activity online, but they dont have a menu when you click on them.

The extensions also dont monitor whether links are safe on a search page, in webmail, or on social networks as extensions from competing companies do.

If, however, you end up navigating to a malicious website the extension will prevent you from accessing the site even if you blow through the built-in warnings in Chrome and Firefox.

Reviews Antivirus For Mac