How to protect yourself from viruses on the Mac

With this guide, we learn to defend our Mac from the attack of viruses which over the years have evolved to be able to create problems even with Apple machines.

A good anti-virus need to stay calm during navigation and protect our files on your computer. It also important to make scans on USB keys input to avoid infections and unwanted data loss.

1.) For Mac, there are many anti-virus, some free some paid. Among the free ones, perhaps the best is without doubt the Sophos Anti-Virus can be downloaded for free from their official website, allows you to have a date protection, with a minimum amount of hardware resources. A small icon in the taskbar and will install them as we can manage updates, periodic scans or specific to individual folders and devices. Also, once installed, clicking the right mouse button on a folder we can now carry out the scan without opening applications or other things.

2.) On the Mac App Store, there are many other alternatives in addition to Sophos: iAntivirus, VirusBarrier Express, ClamXav, Bitdefender (an excellent anti-virus), VirusBarrier Plus (good, but not free), Kaspersky (one of the best), OptimApps (a utility is not very effective), Dr. Web (effective virus), iGuard (to avoid! not find almost anything), Web security (most specific for protection while surfing online), Egis, USBMate, iSecure, iNet Guardian (valid, but for a fee ) and ArpGuard (same speech, a good antivirus, but not on par with the top.

3.) Normally, when you choose an antivirus, this should be the only one operating system installed as most similar programs might have compatibility problems and unwanted interactions. If a virus does not satisfy you, you have to delete it from your computer before installing another. All antivirus that you find on the App Store, they have a very detailed description and reviews from many users that will help you choose the best one according to your needs.

Ultimately, among those available, definitely the best (and most are free) are undoubtedly the Sophos described above, the Dr.Web and Bitdefender. Then there are also other commercial products sold outside of the Appstore that you can find in any store that specializes ..