Sophos Home is currently the best free option for OS X, they are known to be reliable and stable with their products and always keep up to speed with Apple's new updates and releases to OS X.

Check your inventory (Windows, Mac, Android) and decide what your needs are. Some of the top suites don't offer Mac versions and NONE of them can run on any iOS devices. If the free suites are sufficient for your purposes, then you have your answer. Yes, they can be expensive, but so can any financial loss due to shoddy practices and software.ĭo your research, test the suites and decide for yourself. However, my free subscription was due to expire so I decided to shell out the money. Some of the free ones are fine such as Sophos and Panda (I previously was a McAfee user as that was the one that my cable company offered for free). Anyway, I decided the ESET suite was the best for my purposes and have been happy ever since. My main concern was the 'drive-by phishing' tests since Macs really don't pay much attention to Windows executables (*.EXE files) and I don't use my Windows laptop very often. Some passed each of the tests and others failed. I then installed them each individually, and thoroughly ran them through tests by going to the AMTSO web site. What I did was research all of the anti-virus suites both paid and free. The Multi-Device suite comes with all of the components for each of my devices (except, of course, my iPad and iPhone) and also covers my brother's Android phone. I also own a couple of iOS devices and my brother owns an Android phone. My primary laptop is a MacBook Air with a secondary Windows 7 HP Pavilion laptop. I am a relatively new user of ESET Cyber Security Pro (for Mac) as I purchased the ESET Multi-Device Security suite at the beginning of February 2016.

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