


The rest of the items in the navigation pane are pretty straightforward. The Quarantine section in Avira for Mac Pro. You can also drag-and-drop files into this area to scan it for any potential malware. At the top it shows whether your computer is currently protected or not, there is also a button to initiate a new scan with options to do a quick, full, or custom scan. This functions as a dashboard of sorts as well as the area to initiate a malware scan. It uses the common left-rail and primary pane design. Interface and featuresĪvira’s interface is plain but effective. We’d advise users to install the add-on since the web is a primary vector for attacks. Interestingly, when we installed Avira’s free browser add-on Avira Browser Safety there were four additional detections. Over on Wicar there were about 11 “no results” from these tests, which means we tried to open a malicious web-based attack and we ended up with a blank page. It detected a Trojan with no trouble as soon as we tried to unzip the folder, and the same went for Macransom ransomware. Our own malware spot tests using the Objective See archive and were pretty good.
