In the year up to November, only 17,210 pieces of malware have been found, or 1,434 per month. Thankfully, this figure doesn’t seem quite as high in 2021. In addition, there were 48,000 pop-up ads identified. This is more than 56,000 pieces of malware per month. According to independent security institute AVTest, there were 670,000 pieces of malware targeting macOS in 2020. But now the popularity of Macs is part of the reason that new types of malware are developed every day. The previous lack of viruses and malware is part of the reason Macs have become so popular and a status symbol. This is highly effective, as Apple does a good job of keeping its list of malware and other malicious programs up to date. There is also another piece of software called XProtect, which runs in the background on Macs and constantly scans for malware. One of the biggest reasons for this is that Apple has written software specifically to control which programs can be run on their devices, named Gatekeeper.
I wouldn't trust one of these as far as I could spit it.There's no doubt that for a long time, Mac users didn't have to worry about viruses and malware. The trouble with Googling for "best mac antivirus" is that due to some rather dodgy SEO techniques, many of the top results, if you look closely enough, are recommending their own antivirus, & the only other places that particular one is ever mentioned is on other sites using the same SEO techniques… so it all gets a bit cyclical. Never have two active scan/live antivirus solutions on one machine - they can fight. The free, non-interactive version doesn't clash with any other installed anti-virus. I still do have Malwarebytes on here & do occasionally run it. That's usually my tipping point - when ads to buy a freeware version get in the way or even a paid antivirus starts to feel like it's weighing the machine down. Personally, I recently settled on Avira & it hasn't yet irritated me sufficiently to remove it again. They all have a tendency to rise & fall over time, so you really want one that tends to always stay near the top. So, based on that, I'd look at what is listed on AV-TEST & pick something that does well, not only on the latest report, but also going back in history. When Malwarebytes was listed on there a few years ago it scored so badly that one can only imagine they didn't want to keep paying for such damning evidence. There's nothing wrong with it, but if you look at AV-TEST (which is about the closest thing to an actual official authority on which antivirus is 'best') you'll see it's not even listed. Everyone always recommends Malwarebytes… however the free version will not actively scan, so you're left with remembering to run a scan.
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