Internet Security Barrier Antispam

List Price: $83.00 Discount Price: $73.78

Features:

• VirusBarrier X5 The acclaimed antivirus program for Mac Your Mac contains important information and files, but a single virus could wipe out your operating system or damage your files. VirusBarrier X5, the simple, fast and non-intrusive antivirus, protects your files, and your Mac, by detecting and eradicating all known Mac viruses. NetBarrier X5 Protects Your Mac from Internet attacks As

Customer Reviews:

Poor value; poor performance [Posted on 2008-09-15]
The problem with assessing most Internet Security packages is that one doesn't know just how weak a product is in reality until it has been breached! This package come with a lot of fancy displays to try to convince you that it is doing a lot of things to protect your Macintosh computer against hostile internet-borne threats but, when the chips are down, fancy displays are no substitute whatsoever for useful and secure functionality. Sadly, that fact seems to have been largely ignored in the design and specification of this collection of internet security tools.

This particular boxed offering from Intego bundles three main security applications: firewall, anti-virus and anti-spam, together with a few extras, such as Washing Machine for clearing out your browsers of info: browsing history, cookies etc.

The main tools each offer a reasonable degree of configurability but largely fall short of complete usefulness. The Firewall, for instance, looks flashy but doesn't offer much by way of functionality that knowledgeable systems users could not configure for themselves from within the OS. The anti-virus tool only offers protection against Mac-specific viruses and trojans of which there are still not so many in general circulation. Norton AntiVirus 11.0 For Mac scores much higher here, as that is effective against PC/Windoze threats, making it much more useful tool by preventing Mac users acting as unwitting carriers or transmitters of threats to their less enlightened friends or work colleagues. The Anti-spam utility is the most disappointing part of the package, however, as it only works with Apple Mail and MS Entourage, both of which have perfectly adequate anti-spam protection built in. This utility would have been so much more useful if it had also operated with POP mailers such as Thunderbird, or even the old Eudora which many Mac users continue to use in the free mode which has junk mail filtering disabled.

Overall, I can't help feeling that most users would be better off saving the price of this bundle and putting it towards more useful (i.e. complete!) anti-virus package or internet security suite.

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