![]() G Data for Mac Antivirus’ Scanning section. Finally, there are Advanced scan options where you can choose to automatically scan network shares or time machine drives. This section also has an Exclusions list if you want to stop G Data from scanning a large set of photos or videos, or other large files on your system. Another alternative is to click the Scan Scope option to add files and folders. If you want to scan a single folder or set of folders, you can drag and drop them onto the scan button. Press it and G Data initiates a full system scan. Next is the Scan for infections option which has a big yellow button. This area will also list whether your license is valid for the security suite, and how many files you have in quarantine. The primary dashboard- Security Status in the left rail-features a large green check mark when the Mac is protected, and a big red “X” when there are issues. The application itself is very straightforward. G Data for Mac Antivirus after finding infections.īoth testing firms found some weaknesses in G Data’s 0-day protection, but it was still good and shouldn’t pose an issue for Mac users wary of becoming an unwitting vehicle for Windows infections. In its real-world protection from February-May with 754 samples of 0-day and unknown malware, G Data blocked 99.1 percent of threats with seven false positives. G Data for Mac earned a 99.4 percent protection rate in May and 100 percent in June for AV-Test’s 0-day test, and 100 percent in both May and June for the widespread and prevalent malware test.ĪV-Comparatives said G Data blocked 100 percent of Windows malware with three false positives in its malware protection test with more than 10,000 samples in its March 2020 tests. While there isn’t much information about its Mac malware-busting chops, G Data does have a reputation when it comes to Windows malware. Once problematic files are in quarantine, you can decide whether to try and “disinfect” the files or delete them outright. We recommend changing that by going to Settings > Real Time Protection and then for both Reaction on infected files and Reaction on infected archives select Move to Quarantine from the drop down menu. Instead, it prevents the user from opening them. ![]() By default, the antivirus does not quarantine files. That brings us to another point about G Data. ![]() G Data was still capable enough to prevent those additional files from being activated even though they weren’t caught right away. We also noticed that in some cases where multiple examples of malware were present in a single folder all of the files weren’t detected during the real-time scan.
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