Here’s the link: Get Webroot SecureAnywhere for your Mac (or Windows PC) at a discount.Įither way, on the Mac side I am beginning to recommend that people get and install an anti-virus program. Or, plan b, if you use my affiliate link you can buy Webroot SecureAnywhere for a $19.99 annual subscription price, so it’s even less expensive. I don’t know what Geek Squad was selling you at $130/year but the Kaspersky site lists the annual subscription price for Internet Security for Mac as $34.99. I haven’t had Kaspersky Internet Security for Mac running on my system to test, but I can report that Webroot SecureAnywhere is completely invisible and I see no impact at all on my system performance.Īnd then there’s price. The other wrinkle is performance, and there are definitely some antivirus programs on the market that are so aggressive with their scanning and monitoring that they measurably slow down your computer, a super frustrating experience. Or perhaps those computers have been compromised and their owners simply don’t realize. ¡No bueno!Īnd yet depending on how you use your Mac and what sites you visit, perhaps you can get away with never having to worry about an antivirus program (a marked difference to Windows, where I recommend every single computer have good, strong antivirus installed and running at all times regardless of usage patterns). Without this program running, I would have had malware sitting on my Mac system, waiting to trigger. You can see that it’s still flagging the threat, but here’s the point: it caught it.
Here’s what the main window looks like with this particular program:
I used to think that was true but after I installed Webroot Secure Anywhere on my MacBook Pro I have been surprised to have it flag an occasional download as having malware, including a recent download of FlashPlayer.dmg that was downloaded without me being aware of it. But there are a lot more viruses and malware targeting Windows users than Mac users in the wild, so the need for a good anti-virus program is much higher on the PC side.Īnd that’s the debate on the Mac side: A lot of Mac experts say that because there are so few legitimate malware programs targeting the Mac platform, it’s perfectly safe to run an iMac, MacBook, or any other Mac system without any antivirus program running at all. All of them have a subscription fee except for Windows Defender, however. Before I go there, however, I concur that VIPRE is a good solution, but there really are a lot of good options on the Windows side.
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