What MaJoC said - Apple has been targeted. That is what I was thinking without pulling statistics, but that's why I brought up Sophos - they tend to focus on Apple products.

robo, I used free versions of various products over the years - AVG was one of them. Also Avast for a while, and a long time ago, Comodo, but it got really ponderous. I paid for different programs over the years - decades ago Norton/Symantec. In the last 10 years or so I paid for Kaspersky for maybe 5 of them, but it got to where it wasn't playing nice with Windows. That is when I decided to see what Spectrum was offering (I read an article talking about the offerings from each Internet Provider, and how they were generally robust). I had been using the free Malwarebytes, but decided to go ahead and pay for that since it had saved my bacon a couple of times when crap did get into the computer. I mentioned above that it can go on three devices, so averages out to $1 a month per device.

I never intentionally used McAfee because I hate their marketing behavior. And I hated that some of the other programs I used did their updates with a screen that had to be unchecked to deselect a free trial of McAfee. A couple of times I missed it and and to delete the McAfee crap. If Spectrum is using something of theirs it isn't branded that way, but I read a remark about the source of the software ages ago and it may be related. My ex seems to like McAfee ok on his computer and smart phone.

I just pulled up a couple of the sites I like for reviews and they don't list as many free programs as they used to. Tom's Guide has reviews for paid and free programs.