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The 12 Best Antivirus Software for Mac, Compared and Priced

GBHackers ranks 12 Mac antivirus products, naming Bitdefender best overall and noting Gen Digital owns Norton, Avast, and Avira.

GBHackers scored twelve Mac antivirus products, ranking Bitdefender first at 8.8/10, followed by Intego, Malwarebytes, and ESET. The piece highlights that Gen Digital owns Norton, Avast, and Avira following the NortonLifeLock-Avast merger, so three of the twelve options share one corporate owner. It advises comparing year-two renewal prices rather than discounted first-year pricing and notes macOS already ships XProtect, Gatekeeper, and automatic malware removal. The 2026 Mac threat model described is infostealers harvesting passwords, cookies, and wallets via cracked software, fake installers, and malicious search ads.

GBHackersupdated Sep 11, 07:24 UTC · 4d agofirst Sep 9, 07:39 UTC · 6d agoIndustry 10 sources

ZDI-26-567: Norton Utilities Ultimate NortonUtilitiesSvc Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

ZDI discloses CVE-2024-13962, a CVSS 7.8 link-following local privilege escalation flaw in Norton Utilities Ultimate's NortonUtilitiesSvc service.

The Zero Day Initiative published ZDI-26-567, a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Norton Utilities Ultimate. An attacker must already be able to execute low-privileged code on the system before exploiting the symlink/link-following flaw in NortonUtilitiesSvc. The issue carries a CVSS score of 7.8 and is tracked as CVE-2024-13962.

ZDI Published AdvisoriesAug 13, 05:00 UTC · Aug 13, 2026Advisory CVE-2024-13962

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Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in TuneupSvc in Gen Digital Inc.
Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in TuneupSvc in Gen Digital Inc. Avast Cleanup Premium Version 24.2.16593.17810 on Windows 10 Pro x64 allows local attackers to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of SYSTEM via creating a symbolic link and leveraging a TOCTTOU (time-of-check to time-of-use) attack.
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