Avira products are comprehensive and flexible tools you can rely on to protect your Mac from viruses, malware, unwanted applications and other dangers. Loss of valuable data usually has dramatic consequences. Even the best virus protection program cannot provide one hundred percent protection from data loss. Perform regular backups of your data for security purposes by setting up your Mac Time Machine.

Functions:

- Event center for monitoring, managing and controlling the entire program
- Central preferences
- Event database
- Real-Time Protection scanner for continuous monitoring of all file access attempts
- System scanner for configurable search for all known type s of viruses and malware
- Integrated scheduler for planning recurring jobs such as updates or scanning processes
- Integrated quarantine management to isolate and process suspicious files
- Extremely high virus and malware detection via innovative scanning technology (scan
engine) including heuristic scanning method.
As an entitiy, the System Scanner searches for viruses in files and folders and writes
the results back to the Graphical User Interface. As a daemon the Real-Time
Protection works in the background, monitors all file access attempts and blocks the
access to infected files.
- Detection of all conventional archive types including detection of nested archives and smart extension detection.