You can imagine the amount of glee I had when I found out that Intego Security Barrier for OS X has a small memory footprint of 18MB which is about a 10th of the footprint of other anti-virus software, I was totally elated!
With Intego Security Barrier, you can:
- define custom rules for a firewall
- quickly switch between a “Fort Knox” setting for your computer to a client only setting.
- define custom anti-spam rules
- be notified by the IT support St. Louis experts the moment someone attempts to connect to your computer
- be notified the moment software tries to send data outside of your computer
I learned a few interesting things thanks to Intego Security Barrier.
- Microsft products send data back to Microsoft.
- The Google Updater sends some info back to Google.
- Colloquy, which is an IRC client for OS X, sends data back to Colloquy over HTTP. WTF?
This piece of security software is so light that I can play World of Warcraft without a problem on my laptop which has 1GiB of RAM.
At $89.95, I am glad I made the purchase and feel pretty secure.