![]() When we looked, the malware hadn’t been deleted. After waiting 10 minutes, we had to Force Quit. However, TotalAV Essential Antivirus froze with the pinwheel of death when we asked it to delete the malware. Then it failed to spot several more malware samples we unzipped, before it caught another-this time the Proton malware. We opted to have TotalAV Essential Antivirus delete it. TotalAV Essential Antivirus caught the MaMi malware. Nonetheless, we persisted in placing the final load of malware samples on the disk.Īnd then something actually quite shocking occurred. Still the same result.Īt this point we were sure that the claimed “Real-Time Protection” was either a lie or so buggy that it was useless. We reinstalled TotalAV Essential Antivirus from scratch. We undertook the classic tech support trick: we rebooted. This was malware caught by all the other antimalware apps we reviewed. We unzipped the first malware sample from its password-protected archive and…. Unleashing our 26 malware samples on the virtualised testbed with TotalAV Essential Antivirus installed left us scratching our head. ![]() This gave the system resources quite a workout, and made the Mac’s fans spin-up. Presumably TotalAV Essential Antivirus is only scanning certain kinds of files, or certain parts of the file system.Īctivity Monitor on the Mac during scanning showed around 80% usage of four CPU cores on the i7 2.8GHz MacBook Pro, and around 10-20% of the remaining four virtual cores. This is much less than the circa 2.5 million the other antimalware apps claimed to have scanned on the exact same system. Just before the scan completed, the TotalAV Essential Antivirus window reported around 780,000 files had been scanned. In comparison, the fastest any other antimalware app has managed to complete a full scan is around 30 minutes. This was suspiciously fast, completing in around five minutes. Undeterred, we choose to undertake a full system scan. Yet TotalAV Essential Antivirus can be quit just like any other app. Many antimalware apps have special routines that ensure they can’t be quit, because quitting a malware app is an obvious attack vector for malware. If you right-click TotalAV Essential Antivirus’s icon in the Dock and select to quit, it will close TotalAV Essential Antivirus. The next thing we noticed was that TotalAV Essential Antivirus runs as a Dock app, which is to say, it doesn’t run in the background like all the other antimalware apps we’ve looked at that typically show nothing more than just a menu bar icon. We were concerned during TotalAV Essential Antivirus’ installation because, unlike most of the other antimalware apps we’ve reviewed, it didn’t install a kernel module for always-on protection, or request full disk access. Should you choose to invest, you should watch out for that when it comes time for subscription renewal. Keep in mind, though, that the retail price outside of this introductory first year is a hair-raising £95.95/$95.95. PriceĪt just £19.95/$19.95 for the first year's subscription for up to three devicces, Total AV is might be the cheapest antimalware app we've looked at. Here we bring you our full review of Total AV and compare it with those in our round-up of the best antivirus for Mac. Total AV is a competitively priced antivirus option for Mac users with some handy additional features, but it isn't without its downfalls, and some of them are significant.
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