New in X5: VirusBarrier’s Trusted Zone

You know you need virus protection for your Mac, but you want to make sure it doesn’t slow down your work. VirusBarrier X5 is the fastest antivirus for Mac, not only when running manual scans, thanks to its Turbo Mode, which stores a database of files previously scanned so the program only scans new or changed files, but also because its optimized background scanner uses very little overhead. But if you are working with high-performance applications, you want to make sure that you get the most out of every ounce of your processor. VirusBarrier X5 has a new feature, the Trusted Zone, to ensure that when you are working on big files, they don’t slow you down.

VirusBarrier X5’s Trusted Zone is a feature that lets you exclude certain files, folders or volumes from real-time scanning. This can be useful if you do a lot of work with, say, Photoshop, and have a dedicated volume as a scratch disk. Or if you work on large audio or video files, you may want to add them, or their folders, to the Trusted Zone, so they don’t get scanned each time you save them.

To add items to the Trusted Zone, open VirusBarrier X5’s preferences and click the Scanner icon. In the Trusted Zone section, you can define files, folders or volumes that VirusBarrier X5’s Real-Time scanner will not check. You can also Control-click any items in the Finder, and choose More > VirusBarrier X5 > Add to Trusted Zone. However, VirusBarrier X5 will check theses files when you run manual scans of your Mac.

This feature is useful only for large files; VirusBarrier scans small files so quickly that it won’t make a difference. But if you do work on large files, and you’re sure they’re safe, you can add them to the Trusted Zone to make sure you don’t lose a second when you’re working.