Intego VirusBarrier X5 - 10.5.10

Also I have been using Intego's VirusBarrier for several years.
For some days ago I uninstalled the software.
Miraculous what a fast Mac I suddenly have.
For the coming time I will rely on Leopard Cache Cleaner's Virus Scanner.
VirusBarrier? No thanks.

If you believe your mac needs antivirus protection I think Intego's Virusbarrier is a good albeit a little expensive solution.
It works just like advertised and updates come at least once a week. It is very easy/intuitive to use and almost never crashes. If you're into photos or video on a pro basis you should exclude the drives with the raw material from real-time scanning to avoid a drop in data transfer rates. It's better to run VB on all your drives once every couple of weeks (months?) than to have its real-time scanner monitoring all of them constantly.

I can only give you my opinion on European customer support: they are friendly, helpful and even generous. Don't hesitate to contact them.

Personally, I must say I find the price of the app and the virus definitions a bit too expensive. Maybe Intego could reconsider their price policy. A noticable drop in prices could eventually convince many more customers to buy their products.

One thing, however, that is bothering me is that they are very very slow to implement new features requested by customers. For example, I don't see why Virusbarrier still has no option to close automatically after it completed an on-demand scan of a file started from the Finder's context menu. A price drop and open ears to customers' request would raise this product to 5 stars.

I installed VirusBarrier X5 about 2 months ago on a Dual G5 2.0 running 10.4.11 with 5GB of RAM. I shoot a lot of pictures and I have used a very speedy SanDisk Extreme USB 2.0 CF reader for 2 years that had transfer rates of up to 20mb/sec. However for the past few weeks it had become extremely slow (0.2mb/sec) and "froze" for extended periods of time. Today I disabled the "Real Time Scanner" and immediately my transfer speeds returned to normal. This is an obvious problem that needs to be resolved by the Intego folks.

I too have used this product for years.
Apart from one clash with SuperDuper in the last version which was fixed, I have had no problems. Support is fast and helpful.
The installation was smooth, updating has been streamlined and now there is no need for interminable restarts as in earlier days.
The speed of the scan is breathtaking compared to Norton Antivurus.
The Auto Update works in the background so you can just instal and forget about it once all the Preferences have been set. I can not perceive any slow down or interference with normal operations.
My only whinge is that apart from having to pay for definitions which is normal, there is a "Filter" subscription every year and I have been unable to ascertain what it is and why it has to be renewed every year
iMac 2.66 20" 4GB RAM OS 10.5.6

I tried the demo version, and my Intel Macbook has slowed to a crawl. I have removed the software and the problem persists. Any suggestions, anyone?