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Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July 2013 www.av-comparatives.org
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Avira does not add an entry to Finder’s
context menu, so custom scan have to be
initiated from the console.
Overall, we found the interface of Avira Mac
Security to be very clear and uncluttered, with
all necessary functions and information easily
accessible.
Non-administrator access
As mentioned above, it is not possible to
disable real-time protection with
administrator rights, let alone without. We
were unable to remove the program without
administrator rights.
Scheduled scanning
A scheduled scan is set by default for every
Monday at 12 o’clock midday. There is an
option to run the scan at the next system
startup if the scheduled time is missed. The
scheduled scan dialog box, which we regard
as optimally simple, is shown below:
AMTSO Feature Settings Checks
Results for the AMTSO Feature Settings Checks
were as follows:
EICAR.COM test file manual download: file is
quarantined without any notification
EICAR.COM test file drive-by download: file is
quarantined without any notification
EICAR potentially unwanted application: file
is quarantined without any notification
AMTSO phishing test page: the page is
displayed. We note that Avira is among the
vendors listed as supporting the anti-phishing
test feature, but we assume this only applies
to Windows suites.
CloudCar testfile: file is downloaded. Avira is
not shown amongst the vendors supporting
this test feature.
We note that when Avira detects and
quarantines the test files, it does not provide
any sort of message to inform the user what
has happened. We suggest that a message
stating that malware has been quarantined
would be helpful to the user and point out
the effectiveness of the antivirus software.
Real-time protection test: we were able to
copy a folder of Mac malware from a USB flash
drive to the Mac desktop, without Avira
taking any sort of action or providing any
warning.
Malware protection/detection test
Avira Free Mac Security detected all the
malware samples, both Mac and Windows,
used in our tests.
Help and Documentation
All the help and support features of Avira Mac
Security can be found in the Help menu,
which we find very convenient:
The search box at the top of the menu can be
used to search the local help feature, which
provides simple and clear text instructions for
everyday tasks. We note that if the window of
the local help service is used to type queries
(rather than the search box in the Help
menu), results are very context-sensitive. That
is to say, the results found relate only to the