Kaspersky Virus Scanner helps protect your Mac against viruses, Trojans, worms, bots, botnets and more. Note that it should not be confused with Kaspersky Anti-Virus.
Although viruses and trojans very rarely affect Macs, the risks may be increasing as Macs become more popular. Kaspersky Virus Scanner therefore isn't essential but may give those that are worried some piece of mind.
The good news is that Kaspersky Virus Scanner is not as bloated or intrusive as it is on Windows and generally performs discreetly in the background. It also protects against spyware and adware uses Kaspersky's extensive virus database to keep the threat definitions file regularly updated.
The interface is very simple and is similar to Kaspersky Anti-Virus. In fact, you shouldn't need to access it unless you want to perform a manual scan. As with Kaspersky Anti-Virus, scanning can be rather slow regardless of whether you choose Quick or Full scans. You can however select which files and folders you want included in scans which speeds-up things.
It's hard to see any major differences between Kaspersky Virus Scanner and Kaspersky Anti-Virus although upgrading to the latter is considerably more expensive.
If you are worried about security on your Mac, Kaspersky Virus Scanner is worth installing but it's by no means essential.
