78 Macworld • October 2019BUYING GUIDEtime and also hog the Mac’s CPU while they do
so. Waiting six hours to find out if your Mac is
infected is nerve‑wracking.
Always‑on malware protection is what protects
the user outside of the times when scans are run.
If some malware arrives on the disk, perhaps via
an email or a downloaded file, then the always‑on
protection should be able to detect it and either
quarantine it (copy it to a safe folder so the user
can decide what to do with it), or simply delete it.
Usually a notification is shown when malware is
detected in this way, but not all anti‑malware apps
show the same amount of explanation of what’s
happened – and this was one of the factors we
examined in our testing.Several anti-malware apps
also include virtual private
network (VPN) add-ons78 Macworld • October 2019
BUYING GUIDE
time and also hog the Mac’s CPU while they do
so. Waiting six hours to find out if your Mac is
infectedisnerve‑wracking.
Always‑on malware protection is what protects
the user outside of the times when scans are run.
Ifsomemalwarearrivesonthedisk,perhapsvia
anemailora downloadedfile,thenthealways‑on
protection should be able to detect it and either
quarantine it (copy it to a safe folder so the user
can decide what to do with it), or simply delete it.
Usuallya notificationisshownwhenmalwareis
detectedinthisway,butnotallanti‑malware apps
show the same amount of explanation of what’s
happened – and this was one of the factors we
examined in our testing.Several anti-malware apps
also include virtual private
network (VPN) add-ons