It's an appealing feature for people who provide IT to family members/friends.įor the time being, both Avast and Sophos are still good options for Mac users who want to avail themselves of the kind of features the commercial programs provide. And Sophos and Avast paid premium plan features are very similar, with Sophos arguably ahead a bit because of its web-based remote management of up to 10 devices. Sophos and Avast are essentially neck and neck among reviewers of their free Mac anti-malware software. It seems unlikely that Sophos will follow suit nor do I expect the large and well-established security services company to be acquired by NortonLifeLock. Whether Norton has plans to 'upgrade' Avast with a similar crypto-mining 'feature' is know only to Norton/Avast. In this blog post well detail how to reverse, then extend a popular macOS anti-virus engine. NortonLifeLock and Avast to Merge to Lead the Transformation of Consumer Cyber Safety A new Mac malware targets the cryptocurrency community. (Windows version.) MacWorld thinks pretty highly of Avira but states that its 'pro version doesn’t offer better value for most users.'Īvira Free Antivirus review: Solid protection for your Mac MacWorld review.Īnother bit of slightly older news is that NortonLifeLock, which also owns Avira, has entered into an agreement to acquire Avast: But Avira performs well enough for SE Labs to award it their highest AAA rating. I have never tested Avira because there are better options with more accurate test results.

Krebs has some opinions worth reading regarding personal crypto-mining for those thinking of jumping on the bandwagon. Mac cryptomining malware has been on the rise recently, just as in the Windows world,' Malwarebytes Thomas Reed wrote. In his most recent post Brian Krebs writes about Avira Anti-Virus adding a feature that allows crypto-mining:ĥ00M Avira Antivirus Users Introduced to Cryptomining We havent reported on a crypto-malware for the past several weeks.

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