86 Macworld • October 2019BUYING GUIDEnearly a perfect detection and clean‑up rate, with
some caveats.
Before testing we opened Intego Mac Internet
Security X9’s preferences and enabled the
option to scan mounted volumes, and we advise
you to do this too. It means malware in apps you
attempt to install via downloaded DMG archives
are caught immediately.
One malware sample was entirely ignored by
Intego Mac Internet Security X9 when we placed it
into the system – CrossRAT. Weirdly, Intego’s blog
contains a write‑up about CrossRAT and claims
it protects against it (fave.co/31e1ZW3), so this
was might be a peculiarity with our sample of this
malware (although we note that many other anti‑
malware apps detected it just fine).
We again appreciated the speed of Intego
Mac Internet Security X9’s always‑on protection- it typically spotted the virus before the
malware samples could even be fully extracted
from their zip files, which had the effect of
blocking entirely the unzipping process and
ensuring nothing worrying was saved to the
hard disk. This is better than all other apps here
that let us unzip the contents completely before
they spotted anything.
Other security features
The application’s interface includes an option to
schedule scans (off by default), but other than that
there isn’t much to report – and this is a good thing.
Intego Mac Internet Security X9 is happy just to sit86 Macworld • October 2019
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nearlya perfectdetectionandclean‑up rate, with
some caveats.
Before testing we opened Intego Mac Internet
Security X9’s preferences and enabled the
option to scan mounted volumes, and we advise
you to do this too. It means malware in apps you
attempt to install via downloaded DMG archives
are caught immediately.
One malware sample was entirely ignored by
Intego Mac Internet Security X9 when we placed it
intothesystem– CrossRAT.Weirdly,Intego’sblog
containsa write‑up about CrossRAT and claims
it protects against it (fave.co/31e1ZW3), so this
was might be a peculiarity with our sample ofthis
malware(althoughwenotethatmanyotheranti‑
malware apps detected it just fine).
WeagainappreciatedthespeedofIntego
MacInternetSecurityX9’salways‑on protection- it typically spotted the virus before the
malware samples could even be fully extracted
from their zip files, which had the effect of
blocking entirely the unzipping process and
ensuring nothing worrying was saved to the
hard disk. This is better than all other apps here
that let us unzip the contents completely before
they spotted anything.
Other security features
The application’s interface includes an option to
schedule scans (off by default), but other than that
there isn’t much to report – and this is a good thing.
Intego Mac Internet Security X9 is happy just to sit