New in X5: VirusBarrier X5 Quarantine Zone

As Intego rolls out its new X5 software, we’re going to look at some of the most innovative and important features in these programs. Today we’ll look at VirusBarrier X5’s Quarantine Zone.

When you run a virus scan, if you don’t want to repair files automatically, you can have VirusBarrier X5 put them in a special quarantine zone. When files are quarantined, they can’t be opened or read, ensuring that they cannot infect your Mac. This is useful for administrators who want to check files before running VirusBarrier X5’s repair functions.

When VirusBarrier X5 scans files with its real-time scanner, it places files in the Quarantine Zone if you don’t respond to an alert within one minute; so if it finds an infected file while you’re not in front of your Mac, you’re safe. You can then check these files and decide what to do. The Malware Quarantine instrument shows you how many files are in the Quarantine Zone.

You can view the contents of the Quarantine Zone by clicking the arrow on the Malware Quarantine instrument on the VirusBarrier X5 interface. You can then click one of four buttons to do the following to any files it contains:

• Delete from disk removes the file from your Mac.
• Consider safe tells VirusBarrier X5 that you think this file is not infected. This may occur for false positives. However, be very careful in clicking this button; only do so if you are sure that the file is safe. If not, it may infect your entire Mac.
• Scan tells VirusBarrier X5 to scan the file again. You may want to do this if you have files that were automatically added to the Quarantine Zone and you want to know what they are infected with.
• Repair tells VirusBarrier X5 to repair the file, removing the virus.

The Quarantine Zone is an extra layer of protection on your Mac, which helps VirusBarrier X5 keep you safe from all viruses. With this feature, you don’t have to worry about acting immediately on infected files, and you can check it as necessary so you can keep on working in peace.