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Product Review: Mac Security ‐ July/August 2014 www.av-comparatives.org

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Scanning

Full, quick and scheduled scans can be run

using their respective buttons in the main

program window. Custom scans are

accomplished by dragging a drive, folder or

file to the graphic of the Mac in the centre of

the window.

We did not find the custom scan method to be

very obvious, and suggest a note underneath

the graphic would be helpful.

Settings, quarantine and logs

Program preferences can be found in the

VirusBarrier menu, there is a Quarantine

button in the main program window, and logs

are located in the Window menu.

Malware and phishing alerts

The AMTSO phishing test page is not blocked

as the product does not include phishing

protection. When the EICAR test file is

downloaded, the following alert is shown:

We feel that non-expert users may be

confused as to what to do, as there is no

recommended action. Making the “Trust”

option as obvious and accessible as the other

options also strikes us as risky. Finally, we

wonder how relevant the “Repair” option

actually is. We suggest that making

“Quarantine” the default and recommended

option, with “Trust” much less obvious and

accessible, would be an improvement.

A very similar dialog box was shown when the

real-time protection found malware on a flash

drive, although the quarantine option was

disabled.

When a full scan of a flash drive containing

malware is run, the following dialog box is

displayed:

We could not see an obvious means of

selecting multiple items to apply the action

to. Expert Mac users will be aware of the CMD

+ A keyboard shortcut to select all items, but

non-experts would surely appreciate a Select

All button. Again we feel the Trust button is

too obvious and easily accessible. Finally, we

note that quarantining items does not remove

them from their original location, which we

found confusing.

Malware protection test

Mac malware detected: 100%

False positives: 0

Windows malware detected: 49%

Help

The help feature for VirusBarrier comes in the

form of a knowledge base and online user

manual on Intego’s support website. The

knowledge base covers frequently asked

questions that relate to all Intego products,

such as how to install or uninstall the

software. The online user manual is specific to

VirusBarrier, and covers all aspects of

configuration and use of the software.

We found both the knowledge base and

manual articles to be simply and clearly

explained and very well illustrated with

screenshots, some annotated.

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