The price: Norton Security for Mac uses a subscription based service: $39.99 for the first year provides you with one Mac license. Neither are quite as expansive as the antivirus facility, but as a useful way of cutting off issues at the source, they do the job admirably. Safe Web helps you avoid visiting rogue sites, while Identity Safe is a simple password management tool. It's the idle scanning feature that's most useful though, which simply works when you need it to.Īdditionally, Norton Security for Mac includes two Safari plugins. You can switch to automatic, always-on protection and never think about it again, or there's schedule scanning for appropriate times of day for you. What it offers: Norton Security for Mac offers a few different options for scanning.