Our test machine was a 2017 MacBook Air with a 1.8-GHz Intel Core i5 CPU and approximately 54GB of data stored on a 128GB SSD.

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Kaspersky Internet Security for Mac provides excellent system protection from malware and a handful of useful privacy tools, one of which fills a void left by Apple.

While Kasperskys system impact is low, other antivirus products had even lesser impacts for faster overall performance, especially during malware scans.

But if parental controls matter to you, Kaspersky Internet Security for Mac is a must-consider option, and one of the best Mac antivirus software products.

Kaspersky Internet Security for Mac costs and whats covered Kaspersky Internet Security for Mac costs 39.99 per year for one Mac or 59.99 per year for three, although deep discounts are frequently available.

The program supports Macs running macOS 10.12 Sierra or later, with a minimum of 1.2GB of storage available and 2GB of memory.

The company also makes some of the best antivirus in general, and the Mac antivirus software is included with the multi-platform Kaspersky Internet Security and Kaspersky Total Security packages.

Those also packages also include Kaspersky Internet Security for Android, among our picks for best Android antivirus apps.

Alas, theres no Mac production in Kaspersky Security Cloud Free, our top pick for the best free antivirus.

Antivirus protection Kaspersky Internet Security for Mac uses traditional, signature-based scanning and behavioral-pattern recognition to detect malware.

Threat-related data, including newfound malicious or suspicious files, are processed by the Kaspersky Security Network, a voluntary, cloud-based data-collection network that allows the 400 million computers around the world running Kaspersky software to share malware information.

Kaspersky Internet Security for Mac also stops malware made for Windows machines.

That may seem odd, but Windows malware can find safe harbor on Macs and spread to other machines on local networks.

Antivirus detection Kaspersky Internet Security for Macs malware-scanning engine has a generally perfect record for protecting macOS machines.

It caught 100 of malware in tests conducted by the Austrian lab AV-Comparatives in July 2019, and it also caught 100 of malware in German lab AV-Test study in April and May 2018.

MORE: How to Buy Antivirus Software Of the Mac antivirus programs weve recently reviewed, Avast Free Mac Security and Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac also netted perfect scores in both AV-Comparatives and AV-Tests most recent evaluations.

Norton 360 Deluxe (which AV-Comparatives didnt test) earned a 100 score from AV-Test.

Security and privacy features Kaspersky includes the ability to disable your Macs webcam, an option that macOS doesnt itself offer.

Youll have to reenable it in Kaspersky Internet Security if you want to use your webcam again; theres no way to grant webcam access to some apps while blocking others.

Image credit: Toms Guide) Theres also a tool to block tracking by websites, which often track your behavior to serve you ads.

Since blocking all trackers could break some websites you use, Kaspersky lets you make distinctions among behavioral trackers and trackers used by ad agencies, web-analytics firms and social networks and treat each category differently, as well as letting you white-list websites of whose trackers you approve.

Image credit: Toms Guide) Kaspersky gives you the option of downloading its password manager, but you get only the free version, which is limited to 15 entries for login credentials and confidential documents.

Unlocking unlimited entries costs 14.99 per year, which is rather cheap for a paid password manager.

Image credit: Toms Guide) Youll also get client software for Kasperskys Secure Connection VPN service, but it limits you to 300MB of traffic per day.

For 4.99 per month or 29.99 per year, you can get unlimited VPN service, which also allows you to select the location you connect to.

As with the password manager, this is inexpensive for an unlimited VPN service.

Norton 360 Standard and 360 Deluxe each cost more than Kaspersky Internet Security for Mac, but their password manager and VPN services are unlimited by default.) Performance and system impact Kaspersky Internet Security for Mac had a mixed impact on our test systems performance.

We tested this by running our custom Excel VLOOKUP benchmark test, which measures how long a computer takes to match 60,000 names and addresses on a spreadsheet.

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