Mac users often fool themselves thinking that mac does not need antivirus protection, but recent studies have shown that mac users are now as vulnerable as the users of Windows and Linux are to cyber-attacks. Not only virus infection, but mac also can be a victim of trojans, phishing scams, ransomware encryption, and online fraud. Avast Antivirus for Mac has Avast Security and Avast Premium security, Free and paid respectively, to keep the users protected from the gruesome cyber attacks. The programs are designed with strong defensive features like-
● Antivirus
● Internet Protection
● Ransomware protection
● Strong Firewall
Now, these features are appointed with multi-functions to offer robust protection to mac Devices. Let's discuss the functionality of each feature.
Both products of Avast Antivirus For Mac run in the system background seamlessly to offer real-time protection to the device. The protection is mainly based on powerful scan engines that run both periodical and on-time diagnosis of the entire system as well as of the removal devices like USB, CDs, and Memory cards to find out malicious files like trojans, keyloggers, rootkits, adware, spyware, malware, viruses, and other junk files. The scan programs can be manually set by users to scan a specific folder or section of the device to get quick and apt results. After the detection of malicious files, the quarantine program quickly sandboxes the malicious files and sends real-time security alerts to the user. The antivirus feature is also appointed to make reports of every 30days malware scan & removal and update it to the users to let them know how the program is defending against malware.
Internet Protection for Mac
This feature is also included by both products of Avast Antivirus For Mac. Internet Protection has a URL scanner that scans the address of the Websites. If the websites are not authenticated with HTTPS protocol, the safe-brows
er blocks those sites as they may be dangerous and fraud. The online protection keeps the users protected from phishing attacks, online identity attacks and prevents automatic download and invasion of adware and malware components via automatic downloads. The program keeps the card and bank details safe and user identity hidden while one is making an online purchase, or money transactions or surfing through the internet. The internet protection also scans the email inbox and email attachments, and if any of the emails are found to convey susceptible files, it immediately reports the emails as spam.
Ransomware Protection
Only Avast Antivirus Premium Security features ransomware protection to keep the devices safe from the ransomware encryption attacks. The ransomware mainly chooses the path of email address some times infects the devices via malicious downloads, the ransomware protection not only checks the emails and download section to eliminate ransomware com[onents but also keep the important files and confidential data and information in a multi-layered security vault so that ransomware can not encrypt them users may never have to pay gratification money to satisfy the illegal demands of the hackers.
Strong Firewall
Avast Antivirus for Mac invested the firewall program with effective functionally to offer utmost network protection. The firewall program features network protection that keeps the wifi networks protected from hackers with the help of passwords, reduces the internet traffic, prevents the attacks of botnet servers, stops the praying network to connect to the main device through the security holes and does not let the online intruders monitor the users online activity and virtual presence.
The products of Avast Antivirus are good enough for mac devices as they are powered by revolutionary defensive features to keep the mac devices protected against each kind of cyber attack in every possible manner.