We’ve installed the free version and it scanned our system quickly. You can add support for protection against spam, parental controls, backup and data protection (various technologies to help secure your files). This is a decent basic program that offers antivirus, anti-spyware, firewall and anti-phishing protection. Their site has two other solutions that start at $50. One of only two apps in the Mac App Store, VirusBarrier has this free version and a $10 paid version. For company support you will have to pay $29.95 for the premium version. It just offers no company-based tech support. IAntiVirus from PC Tools offers a free version that handles the basics like protection of most forms of malware and can scan your system. It doesn’t scan what is already on your computer, but tries to keep the bad stuff from getting their in the first place. This is defensive software designed to avoid infection. The primary purpose of this is to defend against things like MacDefender by scanning the pages you visit for malware.
Until they do, here are some possible Mac Security solutions for you to consider to keep your MacBook and iMac safe. Even though Apple is making an attempt to deal with this problem, they will need to do more.
With MacDefender making Apple’s recent security update useless within hours of its release, it has become obvious that the days of running a Mac without anti-malware security software are over.
