In addition, the features of the protection packages were listed. 18 Security suites for Mac put to the testįor the maximum protection under OS X 10.9, the AV-TEST lab inspected 18 currently available Internet security suites in terms of their protection function, system load and false positives. An opinion that persists to this day, except probably among the some 700,000 Flashback victims. Up to that time, there was a consensus that an antivirus application for a Mac was merely ballast. The Flashback attack of 2012 caught many users flat-footed, and over 700,000 Macs were infected in a flash. USB sticks, CDs or DVDs, however, are not inspected. Xprotect, for example, checks the mail and browser downloads. To be sure, since OS X 10.7 or 10.8 there are some good internal security systems such as Gatekeeper, Sandbox and Xprotect. Everyone says: Mac OS X can protect itself
