{"id":405,"date":"2008-12-09T22:10:40","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T06:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/?p=405"},"modified":"2020-12-03T13:52:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T19:52:41","slug":"intego-security-barrier-the-lightest-protection-for-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/09\/intego-security-barrier-the-lightest-protection-for-os-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Intego Security Barrier: The lightest protection for OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can imagine the amount of glee I had when I found out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intego.com\/isbDP\/\">Intego Security Barrier for OS X<\/a> has a small memory footprint of 18MB which is about a 10th of the footprint of other anti-virus software, I was totally elated!<\/p>\n<p>With Intego Security Barrier, you can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>define custom rules for a firewall<\/li>\n<li>quickly switch between a &#8220;Fort Knox&#8221; setting for your computer to a client only setting.<\/li>\n<li>define custom anti-spam rules<\/li>\n<li>be notified by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computer-service.com\">IT support St. Louis<\/a> experts the moment someone attempts to connect to your computer<\/li>\n<li>be notified the moment software tries to send data outside of your computer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I learned a few interesting things thanks to Intego Security Barrier.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Microsft products send data back to Microsoft.<\/li>\n<li>The Google Updater sends some info back to Google.<\/li>\n<li>Colloquy, which is an IRC client for OS X, sends data back to Colloquy over HTTP. WTF?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>At $89.95, I am glad I made the purchase and feel pretty secure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[235,236],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techbiz","tag-anti-virus","tag-spyware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}