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Intego VirusBarrier X5

Fast and Easy

Written by VB from Austin

May 6, 2008

This is how a Macintosh security product should work. Obviously, the developers at Intego have their stuff together. I have tried competing products in the past - including Symantec, McAfee and Virex. All were more painful than the bad stuff they were trying to protect from.
The initial HD scan takes awhile, but, it doesn't tie up the ability to do other work. Love the interface.

229 of 243 people found this useful

Intego VirusBarrier X5

SLOOOWWW DOOOWNN YOOUURR MAAACCC.

Written by RK from Tallahassee

Jun 23, 2008

Installed this product, and it seemed to work in the scan. However, It slowed my machine down so slow, it became pretty useless (Almost like a Windows Machine). I had to turn off the Active Scan to get my computer back. I guess I will have to live with occasional manual scans.

205 of 266 people found this useful

Intego VirusBarrier X5

Best protection for Mac

Written by PS from Raleigh

Jan 14, 2009

VirusBarrier is the best virus protection for a Mac. It uses less resources than Norton AntiVirus and it finds viruses that NAV misses. Tech support is very responsive and you may try it out for 30 days free from the Intego web site before you buy.
Just try it.
If you are a person that wants to understand how it works or you want to customize the configuration, just read the manual.

121 of 127 people found this useful

Intego VirusBarrier X5

FABULOUS PROTECTION!!

Written by CS from Hampton Bays

Jan 6, 2009

Several of my friends and I have used this award-winning software for years now, and no problems!! So easy to install and use, it works beautifully and invisibly in the background. This "security" is well worth the money. I had problems with Norton's anti-virus products in the past when on Tiger, but never had a bad moment with Intego products!! Intego works exclusively with Mac's - not just some afterthought. Go for it!!

71 of 77 people found this useful

Intego VirusBarrier X5

Great Product

Written by CM from West Lafayette

Sep 28, 2008

Those of you who have problems obviously did not do something right or this on its own was NOT the problem. I have Never had any problems and its very efficient and stays in the background and dose not interfere of slow anything down.

75 of 88 people found this useful

Intego VirusBarrier X5

Very Good

Written by CR from Marietta

May 6, 2009

While this software is advertised as non-intrusive, the first scan of any drive or device will slow down the operation of your computer. I have a 2.4 GHz MBP with 4 GB of RAM, and it still suffered some beach balls when trying to surf the web while running the initial scans.

As mentioned in the ads for this software, though, it works on a similar principle to Time Machine. Subsequent scans only search through files that have been modified since the last scan. Consequently, once the initial scans are done the software is non-intrusive to say the least. Even when you enable real-time scanning, which lets the software scan files as they are opened or run, there is no discernible effect on system performance.

I highly recommend this software.

48 of 48 people found this useful

Intego VirusBarrier X5

probably not compatible with Time Capsule

Written by NC from Arcata

Apr 8, 2009

If you have a Time Capsule, I strongly suggest trying VB's free trial download before buying it. I didn't, and subsequently spent DAYS trying to get everything back to normal. The guy at Intego tried to support me through it, but it never did work.

38 of 42 people found this useful

Intego VirusBarrier X5

Intego does work

Written by TP from Richfield

Jul 29, 2009

I had a drive-by Unix Arc-Bomb Trojan through an I-Frame injection happen to me on a nationally known router/UTM site. I normally have my NoScript engaged not to let Java/Flash run, but that time I was going to download something and had Java and Flash running for that site This was no false positive, after talking to their webmaster they shut the site down for 2.5 days. Their site was infected. I would of never known what hit me if I did not have an anti-virus/malware program. This was 1.5 years ago. It is 100 times worse now with PDF/Java infections attacking the browser. You HAVE to be protected, even with a Mac. I am not worried about a virus, I am more worried about malware on OS X.

I just don't get the disappointed people. I have been running their products on 6 Macs and have never had issues with any of them. Sure your computer will slow down a bit if you are in a full active scan, as for automatic background downloading and email scans I notice no slow downs.

I buy the 2 year plan on virus definitions, so I only pay $44.90 for 2 years of definitions. $23 a year, That's fair

32 of 34 people found this useful

Intego VirusBarrier X5

THANKS, INTEGO

Written by AA

Jul 3, 2009

I am surprised that some people are having a hard time with this software, as I have been running it for a few months with no problems at all. It is mostly invisible, running scans when I connect another volume or boot my mac in the morning.

Other Virus protection software I have used has been so bad I abandoned using it, but this one behaves very well and does exactly what it's told. If it starts a scheduled scan and I want to use all the CPU power for another task, I simply close the progress bar window and I get no argument. Other software I have used will not allow me to interrupt or postpone a scan, it will lock up my machine instead, not this one, it does what I say!

I am running it on a mid 07 2.4 MacBook Pro, which has heaps of grunt, so maybe the moaners are using older, less capable hardware.

To the uninformed, be informed, welcome to the real world where millions of Mac-Haters can't wait to shoot the Mac OS down in flames. A recent scan of a friends disabled computer revealed 12 malicious items with root access including, 'OSX/RSPlug.B10!s1', 'OSX/RSPlug.A9!s1', 'OSX/RSPlug.gen7!s1', W32/FraudLoad.vaoa, et-cetera.

I COULD HARDLY BE HAPPIER WITH THIS PRODUCT, THANKS, INTEGO.

26 of 29 people found this useful

Intego VirusBarrier X5

Awesome Product

Written by KO from Wake Forest

Apr 11, 2009

Intego's VirusBarrier X5 is the best anti-virus software I've used on any system. I've had problems with anti-virus programs slowing down my PC or conflicting with Windows security features. So I wanted to make sure that wouldn't happen to my new MacBook, running Leopard. I'm pleased to say it has not affected my MacBook's performance at all. VirusBarrier is simple to install and use and now I feel much better knowing not only is my personal information on my MacBook safe, but I won't be passing virus' to other family members who still have Windows based PCs.

23 of 24 people found this useful

Intego VirusBarrier X5

Dissapointed

Written by CF from Mason

Sep 6, 2008

Bought the software and it arrived promptly. There is no manual in the box, which struck me as strange for 70$ software. I installed it with a little intuition and told it to start scanning. For some reason the software counts the # of files on your computer...useless?...yes. The software has a one year license for updates which I was unaware of. It scanned and found no viruses, which is good. I guess everyone is right, there are very few viruses for Macs, or this software doesn't work. (im assuming it does) I downloaded new definitions which was simple and easy and set up the scanning schedule. Had some trouble turning on the Real-Time scanner which scans in the background without having the program running.

47 of 72 people found this useful

Intego VirusBarrier X5

Disappointed!

Written by MN from Salt Lake City

May 13, 2009

This slowed my machine down to barely a crawl. Not worth the time and the hassle.

31 of 54 people found this useful