The Mac Premium Bundle X9 adds three more sets of capabilities for $39.99/£23.99 for the first year: the backup prowess of Personal Backup (a good ‘belt’ addition to your Time Machine ‘braces’), the useful cleaning, tidying and general speed optimizing tricks of Mac Washing Machine, and finally the multi-user safe surfing intelligence of ContentBarrier. There’s also a free VirusBarrier Scanner, which you can download on the Mac App Store, Intego’s Internet Security bundle costs $24.99/£20.00 for the first year (if you use this link). The tool offers good compatibility with macOS, and unlike some of the competitors, it looks like a real Mac program. We were also warned when we opened a disk image with a malicious installer. In our testing, Intego VirusBarrier caught all our malware and ‘uninvited software’ samples including ones for other platforms. The AV-Test in June 2023 scored 5.5 out of 6 for protection, 5 out of 6 for performance and full marks for usability. According to AV-Comparitives, it detected a good 99.4 percent of Mac malware, 97 percent of PUAs (Potentially Unwanted Programs) and 100 percent of Windows viruses, so it can be recommended. In the June 2023 test by AV-Comparatives, Intego’s VirusBarrier received an “Approved” rating and showed good performance and improvement compared to previous years. Suspicious files are quarantined, and these can then be marked as trusted, left quarantined or a repair attempt can be made. VirusBarrier X9 can scan every file on any connected disk, including within compressed archives, and it can scan emails and connected iOS devices. Together these tools offer a high level of protection against direct and indirect unwanted software and malware threats. The job of VirusBarrier is self-explanatory, but the second is a two-way firewall, a component you don’t often see included with security software at this sort of price. Intego’s Mac Internet Security X9 suite combines VirusBarrier with NetBarrier to create a pair of utilities designed to catch and kill malware threats, and spot potential intrusion attempts from outside as well as outgoing attempts from rogue software. VirusBarrier from Intego is well known among Mac users, with the solution being one of the first virus scanners on the Mac.
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