Norton Internet Security - OSX decent antivirus, firewall and guardian of personal data

Working on a Mac for several years, I had completely forgotten about such terms as "viruses". Whether OSX is not too interesting for malware writers, whether such a stable system. But when I gave my dad a USB flash drive with a file downloaded from the Internet for him, his antivirus program screamed and blinked, indicating that I came from the infected file. Unpleasant situation, agree.

So I decided to try to install an antivirus to check your Mac from one of the days remembered by Windows producer - Symantec.

Selected product called Norton Internet Security 5 for Mac and consists of such basic utilities: AntiVirus, Firewall, Identity Safe.

But first, a bit of useful information about viruses for OSX.

MacVirus

Unfortunately, according to all the information on viruses for Mac, I've found - they are a huge number! And in general, talk about how there is no viruses for Mac - originally a myth. Any operating system created by man, and to err is human, especially in the details, especially in such a large, complex and intricate designs, as the whole OS. Computers on this system to produce and sell less than Windows, so the main force hackers and were thrown on the creation of a variety of malicious programs to the latest OS.

AntiVirus

Everything is simple and clear - the scanner sits in the background and scans incoming and outgoing files. You can check the entire system when the computer is not in use. In the settings, you can allow the program to scan files, external drives, and for infected objects enable automatic treatment.

Firewall

Firewall is designed to provide secure communications via the Internet and in him. You can enable the smart mode definitions of hazardous compounds and can manually disable certain programs access to the network. Only your imagination can help you decide who to restrict access to the network and when, but it is very useful feature especially for slower connections and always something pulling from the internet today OS.

Another interesting feature is the firewall propisanie safe and unsafe places in which you access the Internet. For example, in the home network settings will be made automatically in less aggressive than in a public wi-fi.

Identity Safe

This utility is designed to prevent theft of personal data when using the web. It will automatically alert you to go to a site recognized phishing, and even exclude from the search results at Google. Especially the effects of phishing familiar to users of the social network VKontakte that lose access to their account from which at this time are sent to all your friends invitations to SUPER free movie or Office 2013 IS FREE. And people click - not everyone can know everything, and such systems are just filtered.

Also here you can store particularly important files for you, without your knowledge that no one will be able to open or modify. Protected file will not be visible even in the file OSX system.

Output

This utility is designed to prevent theft of personal data when using the web. It will automatically alert you to go to a site recognized phishing, and even exclude from the search results at Google. Especially the effects of phishing familiar to users of the social network VKontakte that lose access to their account from which at this time are sent to all your friends invitations to SUPER free movie or Office 2013 IS FREE. And people click - not everyone can know everything, and such systems are just filtered.
Also here you can store particularly important files for you, without your knowledge that no one will be able to open or modify. Protected file will not be visible even in the file OSX system.

Norton Internet Security 5 for Mac

And at the end we would like to give some safety instructions:

• Use security software. At the same time, it is important to understand, to the paid antivirus to satisfy more stringent requirements, so feel confident with them will be easier.
• For everyday use, create a user account without administrator rights. It is necessary because, if you have on a Mac only one account, it is uniquely endowed with administrative privileges that allow you to change the rights of others users to install and uninstall software, change your computer settings, etc. All of these capabilities can benefit from malicious program.
• As often as possible, and update your computer software. The Norton Antivirus noticed one very important detail - the signatures are updated several times a day. At the same time, everything happens in the background and does not need to answer a million different questions.
• Be sure to use a password manager. In Norton has his. At the same time, I understand that it is tied to your account on their website and you can use it on any computer. You need to remember only the password for the account.
• Make backup copies of the data.