Intego VirusBarrier Scanner 4+

I use my computer heavily every day and constantly on the internet. I’m no longer complaicent about Macs being out of reach of virus, malware, adware and all the other spooky little gremlins that could be running around in my compuer. I need to take action before the gremlins take action on me. Virus Barrier seems to have a solid background and experience tied in with the Intego paid version. I cannot justify paying for the full Intego package but I have confidence Virus Barrier will sufice for my use. Only time will tell but it seems to be doing a great job so far in identifying quite a few malware files which are now repaired and quarantined.

At first it seemed to be a bit oversensitive to harmless items, but I haven't noticed that for some time now. It's warned me of a few items that warranted further checking, but so far hasn't actually found anything that was a real threat.

Some years ago I ran another virus checker that eventually proved to be interfering seriously with the operation of the machine and which had to be de-installed for that reason. There has been absolutely no sign of this causing any problems at all. Just oeprates quietly in the background.

It appears to be a good product (very hard to tell how good any AV product is until actual product or rivals go wrong). The dowsnide of this product is when performing the daily full scan it makes the machine unusable. Everything grinds to a halt, even simple browsing. I find I have to stop the scan if I have to complete work. I can imagine video conferencing for example would not be fluid if the scan is running. Changing the scan schedule does not seem possible or at least it isn't intuitive. As a career Information Security professional I'd advise the vendor to focus on being less resource intensive. My machines are about 6 years old but iwth good specs and latest OS.