ANON BUD  I quit using Intego products a while back. Used to use their backup, anti-virus, firewall software, but they always ask for an exorbitant amount of money for upgrades, plus — IMHO — their support system is really quite bad.

I've moved to ClamXav — which is free — and this has been working great for me for several months.  
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CHRISCHRAM  Is it just me, or does the name "Internet Security Barrier" sound like something that circumvents all other security software? Inquiring minds want to know.  
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SANCHAI  After weeks of waiting, I finally received an email from Intego Tech support. The support ask me to run some script to capture error.

Too late, Intego Internet Security Barrier X6 had been removed from my system. I CANNOT TOLERATE SOFTWARE SUCH AS THIS ONE THAT CAUSE KERNEKL PANIC EVERY TIME I SHUT DOWN MY MAC.

I will never forgive Intego again. I will not ask for refund. But you can be sure that Intego software will never have any chance to touch my Mac again!!!

So long farewell. You have lost your client an I will spread the negative news about this software to everyone

Avoid it if you can. I have turned to Norton Internet Security 4 and it work flawlessly  
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SANCHAI  I use Internet Security X6 without any problem for 2 months. But starting today VirusBarrier X6 cause kernel panic almost every time I shut down my Macbook Pro.

Try uninstall and reinstall this software a couple of time. Same problem, kernel panic almpst every time I shut down my Mac. Also, it also cause invalid file count that cause verify disk fail in disk utiolity. I have to boot to sheel mode and use fsck -fy to solve disk structure problem

Why suddenly this software cause problem? Before problem. web threat pop up show that some IP want to do scan port. of my Mac. I blosk it.

From there on, kernel panic all the times.

I write to tech support now. No answer yet. Will post my experience here to share what going on!  
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PHALERON  I would have upgraded to v6 but Intego does not accept PayPal. Credit card only. I have since gone back to ClamXav which seems to do the same thing for free.  
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LEOOFBORG  I get the feeling jimblue works for Intego. Why else would you write a long, rambling 4+ star review that pushes all the bad reviews to the bottom of the page?  
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JIMBLUE  @leoofborg -- resistance is futile. man, what a harsh review. speaking for virusbarrierX6, which is what the screenshot here is of, it takes care of many common security issues very easily for the common user. i mean your link the 225 page pdf about security was great and i plan to read it through --sometime. intego has been making great security software for the mac for 15 years -- and it's about so much more than virus protection. where to start… as far as virus/malware goes, intego protects against windows viruses as well. yeah we are lucky and have macs but 90% of the people don't and nothing will piss them off more than you passing along a virus to them, even though it's harmless to you. intego also scans your email for viruses/malware transparently. intego updates windows, mac, linux, and classic virus/malware definitions about every two days -- automatically and in the background. and intego scans inside like 20 compression formats. what's next… you could download safari cookies, pith helmet, safari add blocker, and a host of other freeware and hope it doesn't mess up your browser when it's updated, or you could use intego and know it's going to work and work great without causing problems and be very optimized. i'm not knocking the above freeware -- it's great stuff and i'm thankful for the developers for making it. but with intego you'll find the only safari add-on you might need is glims or something like glims. adds are going to stopped like you wouldn't believe. if you choose you can have a little window pop up telling you each time an add is block, but rows of them will quickly fill up you screen, so best to turn that off. let's see… after you scan that 200 gigabyte legal music collection for windows viruses, malicious scripts and corrupted resource forks, rest assured it's ok to share it with anyone on any os. you can mark them as safe so those 200 gigs won't be scanned anymore, just as you can mark anything safe so as to save time. and schedule your scans when you are away from your computer. more there's so much more… some people might not like to, but i like to click the prefs that say "consider hacking tools and keyloggers threats." great built-in anti-phihsing as good as what 1password does. it stops port scans, intrusions, flooding, ping and buffer overflow attacks -- and you can set the sensitivity on those. you can set it to outright deny addresses or implicitly trust others, accept only cookies from certain sites and deny all others. the privacy settings protect your emails, phone numbers, names, addresses, credit card numbers, social security number, or anything -- you can tell it to set off an alarm, and you decide if you want that data to leave your computer or not. two way firewall -- so you can stop apps from "phoning home" like little snitch, or stop anything suspicious from leaving your computer -- you decide what apps have what privileges for outgoing and incoming data. it's got a nice set of tools in you care to traceroute, whois, monitor what's going on with the two-way firewall, see what your services are doing -- file sharing, web sharing, itunes sharing, iphoto sharing, are built in but you can add any protocol, local or remote port, remote address or state. a nice simple networks window. a cool little gauge window that sits nicely in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen so it's impossible to miss if data is for some unknown reason being sucked off or put on your computer -- and it's just a nice and unobtrusive way to monitor your outgoing and incoming speeds -- see if your isp is true to what they promise. and all these things and more are all laid out so simply that's it's not overwhelming or confusing -- anyone past a beginner stage can handle it which not hardly any effort -- easy learning curve. and their new pricing scheme in a recent macworld article pointed out a savings of like $400 for two computers for two years -- intego virusbarrierX6 now only cost $70 the first year and like $35 every year after that -- and that's for a two-computer license. i agree with you that most other companies that do what intego does, and aren't freeware, use scare tactics to sell their wares which are mostly useless, but not intego. stopping mac users from spreading windows viruses is just one little thing among the many things intego does. looking over the table of contents in the 225 page article you posted, i can tell it's gonna be a great read. but at least in the meantime, with all these super high-speed connections, i just feel much safer knowing if my credit card number leaves my computer and i don't tell it to, intego's gonna set off it's now infamous alarm that makes me jump out of my seat.   
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ALIENDUDE  When I installed this demo, I got kernel panics. Removed it, and they went away. Stay away.

I'm on a iMac 27" /1TB hard drive, 8 GB ram.  
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LEOOFBORG  Yeah, I read Intego's little pithy piece o' FUD.

That's all it is. Here's the rebuttal:

1/ Trojans, aka 'Rogue Installers' would be a problem ANYWAY. A bunch o' people download a pirate software like iWork, and Apple and Intego would both issue patches ANYWAY. How to solve? Stay with REPUTABLE software.

2/ The other issues that Intego mentions were patched by Apple anyway. No OS is perfect, but MacOSX builds on 30 years of UNIX computing used by science and the military.

3/ Why even mention the iPhone? *sigh* Oh yeah, just to increase the FUD around jailbreaking. Oh, BTW, Saurik issued his own readme in Cydia about the issue for FREE.

It's pretty cut & dried, boys and girls. Stay away from untrustworthy software. Read reviews and in the hacker / jailbreaker community STAY AWAY from the pirates. There's NO free lunch.

And know your system. Here is some more reliable reading than what Intego is putting out:

http://www.apple.com/support/security/guides/

Apple's security guides used by the NSA, CIA, and the Feds. In fact, the Feds worked with Apple and these standards are mandated by the US Fed Government. Your tax dollars helped make these guides you should benefit from it.

http://www.infoworld.com/t/platforms/windows-inherently-more-vulnerable-malware-attacks-os-x-489?page=0,0

This is a slightly older, but very balanced view of why Windows gets attacked more and is harder to secure. Basically, what's missing from Windows that makes it harder to secure than a Unix like OSX.

So you have a choice. Learn your Mac or pay Intego for their FUD.

-Leo  
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KOBALT  Don't know why they had to wrap NetBarrier in with their virus soft. Now, to update my firewall, I've got to pay $70 (the MUSpecial) instead of $50 and I get a whole lot of stuff (read AVware) I don't want!

And yes, I know Apple supplies a firewall, but it's not to my liking.  
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