October 2019 • Macworld 85BUYING GUIDEWhen Intego Mac Internet Security X9 find
malware, it pops up the above dialog box to
ask you what you want to do about it(yes, two). This is very probably because Intego
Mac Internet Security knows which files haven’t
changed, and therefore doesn’t bother scanning
them all over again.
This scan speed is fast compared to most
other malware apps we’ve seen, although it did
sometimes utilize up to 70-80 percent of the eight
virtual CPU cores on our test setup, causing the
fans to spin up sometimes too. In the preferences
we spotted an option to limit CPU usage, which
should lessen the scan’s impact on what you’re
doing on your computer at the time, although
likely at the expense of scan speed.
Next, we attempted to deliberately infect our
virtualized Mac test bed with 26 percent Mac
malware virus samples in an unscientific but
hopefully representative test. The results wereOctober 2019 • Macworld 85BUYING GUIDEWhen Intego Mac Internet Security X9 find
malware, it pops up the above dialog box to
ask you what you want to do about it
(yes, two). This is very probably because Intego
Mac Internet Security knows which files haven’t
changed, and therefore doesn’t bother scanning
them all over again.
This scan speed is fast compared to most
other malware apps we’ve seen, although it did
sometimes utilize up to 70-80 percent of the eight
virtual CPU cores on our test setup, causing the
fans to spin up sometimes too. In the preferences
we spotted an option to limit CPU usage, which
should lessen the scan’s impact on what you’re
doing on your computer at the time, although
likely at the expense of scan speed.
Next, we attempted to deliberately infect our
virtualized Mac test bed with 26 percent Mac
malware virus samples in an unscientific but
hopefully representative test. The results were