Virusbarrier Scanner Review

Free antimalware solution designed to protect you against macOS, Unix and Windows malware via manual or automatic daily scans of your Mac's hard drives

PJ'sPalWhen the Macworld review states.' VirusBarrier iOS thus doesn’t scan for or eradicate malware that could harm your iOS device—in large part because no such malware has been discovered; rather, it aims to ensure that your iOS device won’t act as a conduit for malware that could wiggle its way onto your computer if left unchecked.' This is an antivirus protection app that I installed on my mac computer and now I am here to give you guys a review. VirusBarrier X9 scanner review VirusBarrier X9 is Intego Antivirus engine designed for exclusively for Mac and Unix malware, but recently it was improved to detect Windows-based viruses as well. So, recently, my copy of HitmanPro has been giving me popups, showing a long list of malware and viruses that it has detected. The only problem is, my trial license for HMP has expired, and I can't clean out said malware without buying the product.

What's new in VirusBarrier Scanner 1.2:

• Fixes an issue where scans may hang.
• Adds native support for Macs with Apple M1.

Intego Virusbarrier Scanner Review

Although most macOS users think that Apple's operating system is immune to malware, there is an increased chance of getting infected every year.

To be more exact, at the moment, you can be targeted by any malware from keyloggers, worms, adware, spyware, trojan horses, and backdoors, to the more complex bitcoin stealers, rootkits, and ransomware.

Offers manual and automatic protection against a wide variety of malware

Despite Apple adding an anti-malware solution within Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, dubbed XProtect, back in 2009, your protection depends on Apple's vigilance and speed of updating the malware definitions.

To make sure that your data and computer are guarded at all times, you should also add an extra layer of protection by installing a 3rd party antimalware solution.

VirusBarrier Scanner is a free antivirus and antimalware tool specifically designed to protect your Mac from macOS, Windows and Unix malware by allowing you to manually examine any folder or by automatically scanning a pre-defined selection of locations on your hard-drives.

Clean user interface and automated malware definition updates

The VirusBarrier Scanner app features a user-friendly and minimalist interface which helps you to rapidly start a scan of any folder on your Mac or to start the daily scan with a simple mouse click.

VirusBarrier Scanner displays a progress screen once the malware scanning process starts, and it will automatically notify you when it finds a piece of malware on your Mac of its removal, as well as of its transfer to the Quarantine zone.

The VirusBarrier Scanner antimalware solution checks for new malware definitions every six hours or before each scan, whichever comes first. Furthermore, you can manually check the installed malware definitions by going to the app's About window, an action which will also trigger an update.

As a downside, despite doing a great job during the test period, VirusBarrier Scanner still needs some additions such as a real-time scanning mode, a status bar item for easier access and a way to remove the dock icon the free up space for apps you use frequently.

Powerful, user-friendly and free antivirus and antimalware tool for the Mac

Regarding the system resources it needs, VirusBarrier Scanner required around 300 / 400 MB of RAM and approximately 400% out of a quad-core 2 GHz Intel Core i7 during scanning. Despite this, the Mac did not feel sluggish, which is a testimony of VirusBarrier Scanner's capability to correctly manage its process priority and allowing our other apps to run unencumbered.

If you want to make sure that you have the rains, you can also enable the 'Scan with low priority' option within VirusBarrier Scanner's Preferences Scanner tab. Moreover, if you need extra information on how it works, Intego also provides an online VirusBarrier Scanner user manual which contains everything you want to know about how to use the app to protect your Mac from malware.

In a nutshell, having Intego's free VirusBarrier Scanner antimalware solution installed enables you to shield your Mac against a wide variety of malware from viruses, worms, and trojan horses, to spyware, rootkits, and ransomware.

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VirusBarrier Scanner 1.2

runs on:

OS X 10.10 or later (Universal Binary)

file size:

132.9 MB

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Antivirus

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Scott Williams <http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/> 7/26/01

VirusBarrier 2.0.1 by Intego
(download, add $15 for CD version)
at the Intego web site: http://www.intego.com/

VirusBarrier System Requirements: Mac OS 8.1 to OS 9 (OS X should out September 2001) ; PowerPC, Powerbook, iMac or G-series; Transport; 16MB memory; 5 MB free disk space; Screen resolution 800 x 600 or higher

How can you get it? Or a CD or download from the web

Though I have Norton Anti-virus at work on my PowerMac G4 running OS X, I needed a new first rate protection for my home compiter, a PowerMac G3 running OS 8.6 (I have programs that don't even run on OS9 much less OS X). I examined Norton Anti-virus, Dr. Solomon's Virex, and VirusBarrier. Their old versions running on 8.1 could not be updated with the latest virus definitions.

I was first attracted to Intego's VirusBarrier for the Macintosh (they also have a PalmPilot version) because I was very pleased with another of their programs, the personal firewall NetBarrier. Indeed the anti-virus utility VirusBarrier uses several of the features I like about NetBarrier.

VirusBarrier is simpler than Norton Antivirus but gives the same protection. Following installation, VirusBarrier will scan your disks for viruses [You do not even have to restart your machine] - it took 12 minutes for my 12 gigabyte hard drive. It found two viruses both my old versions of Virex and Norton anti-virus missed. Dooplay theme. One of these viruses affected the preferences of Norton anti-virus so that it would update properly.

After the initial scan you can then customize it to your needs before it starts working. The program continuously monitors your entire hard drive scanning files when they are either created or modified. But, unlike other programs, this does not seem to slow the performance of your machine.

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You do not need to disable VirusBarrier when you install software!

You do not need to scan removable media separately! (it will scan the files when you drag them to your hard drive).

It catches PC viruses! MACNN in their tests said, 'VirusBarrier caught every virus and trojan that we threw at it. It even caught some PC viruses during the drive scan, such as the Melissa virus, which doesn't affect Macs, but could wreck havoc on a PC if the file had been given to a Windows user.'

It scans compressed files! This is new in 2.0.1 and answered a previous complaint.

It requires 6MB but only uses 300KB during monitoring and small scanning! VirusBarrier works by constantly monitoring your drive and. While both Norton AntiVirus and Virex can utilize similar features on folders that a user specifies, such as their special designated folder(s), VirusBarrier covers the entire drive, scanning files as they are created or modified, without drain on your speed.

I found no defects. Further MACNN said, 'There were also some issues with a handful of trojan applications, which didn't trigger an alert after decompression despite being infected. VirusBarrier stopped our attempts at launching the applications--and thus infecting our system--but this is another case where a file that one could initially be presumed to be virus-free was not.'

You can update automatically or manually! To keep up with the latest updates, VirusBarrier offers a version-checking feature that can be set to manually or automatically check for updates. Unlike most anti-virus utilities that release monthly definitions files, Intego releases complete VirusBarrier updates with the new definitions, so checking for new versions frequently is a must.

SUMMARY

Pros: fast, constantly scans, does not slow machine, menubar interface, automatic updates of definitions and software

Virusbarrier Mac

Cons: I don't have any.

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