Best antivirus for mac?

Avira

https://www.avira.com/

Your brain

A sledgehammer.

Is there any anti virus software that isn't questionable / invasive / a mess anymore?

On windows I just let windows defender do its thing (it has such a light touch I never notice it) and that's it.

@N00bPancakess
Windows defender is actually on of the best antivirus offerings out there

@SortOfTested really? How so? Wasn't it messy?

@iiii it still has issues. Especially with WSL. But, it’s the cleanest, most non-invasive, up-to-date Option there is.

Sophos is also a Great choice, but they have a different goal.

Asks for antivirus for mac.
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non-intrusive:
clamav?

@yehaaw
Fair. Its just cliche to talk about mac antivirus.

@SortOfTested
Why?

@yehaaw

It's probably the gold standard as far as easy / unobtrusive anti virus. Gonna come up.

An ad blocker

@N00bPancakes exactly. My combo is this windows defender + common sense + occasional full system scan by Malware bytes (otherwise it's disabled) never had any issues. Windows defender is more than enough.

Errrrrr??

@null-pointer-ex
You and your piece of shit windows defender. I was asking about mac antivirus. Get glasses you twat.

AntiVirus for Mac?

Its called not clicking allow changes when you download pirated software

@yehaaw aye chill. I was replying to another guy.

@yehaaw Thats not very nice to say when your asking for help:) I hope the rest of your month is as pleasant as you are friend.

@yehaaw in all fairness, you can install Windows on a Mac.

I'm pretty sure that Apple itself... and basically everything we use willingly - is really 'the virus' in general. They are the one's tracking us and exploiting us. It's just like... "legal" - until otherwise decided.

I've had a mac for 22 years or so, and I've never used an anti-virus application.

I'm under the impression that since Mac is a smaller market-share that it's not as worth attackers' time - and Apple also puts a lot of money into their security. So, - pretty sure you don't need one - except for the occasional chrome addon that's sketchy and hard to figure out how to remove.

Not really sure why people are downvoting you. The answer is probably just that "you don't need one."

@sheriffderek this is stupid thinking because of smaller market share there will be no viruses...
also if you are patched to latest your AV will not protect you from any new vulnerabilities

@iiii

Yeah, that would totally make sense.

@sheriffderek Philosophy Now. Thanks no thanks

@coffeeholic Thanks for letting me know. I'll try to be less stupid.

@sheriffderek u r welcome anytime

@coffeeholic FYI: You can write sentences with full words like: "You are welcome, asshole" because your shorthand English is too confusing (I mean efficient) for us stupid people. t.i.a.p. (I looked that up and it's short for "Thanks In Advance, Prick."

Disclosure: Most of my daytime job consists of writing Antivirus software for macOS. - Doesn't matter which vendor. But as such we have to deal with a lot of the new "security" measures that Apple is taking to wall its garden. If you are interested in details, and how most of this is (easily?) bypassed, I think you can find nice write-ups on this blog: https://objective-see.com/blog/... -

Once when I monitored file accesses in macOS I stumbled upon some static YARA rules with whom executables were checked before executing. Apparantly the eicar rule in there was so bad, the malware analysts in our company had a good laugh...

So - would I trust Apple to protect my mac? - NO.

But would I buy a commercial AV to protect my mac (or in my case rather Linux)? - Also, NO.