Intego is a Mac and Windows security software company founded in 1997 by Jean-Paul Florencio and Laurent Marteau. The company creates

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. Intego currently has offices in the U.S. in

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, and

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, and international offices in

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, and Nagano,

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. All of Intego's products are universal binaries, and are supported in several languages: English, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish, and previously Italian.

History

Co-founded by former CEO Laurent Marteau and Jean-Paul Florencio and based in Paris, France, Intego released its first antivirus product in 1997: Rival, an antivirus for Mac OS 8. Two years later in July 1999, Intego released NetBarrier, the first personal security software suite for

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. Then in October 2000, Intego released its

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antivirus software, VirusBarrier 1.0, for Mac OS 8 and

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. Intego launched ''The Mac Security Blog'', a

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that covers Mac security news,

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security updates, Mac

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alerts, as well as news and opinion pieces related to Apple products, in mid-2007. The company launched a podcast in October 2017, called the ''Intego Mac Podcast''. Intego released its current X9 version of antivirus and security software in June 2016, which has since had several under-the-hood updates, including compatibility with new macOS releases and

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processors. Kape Technologies announced in July 2018 that it was acquiring Intego to "enhance ape'sarsenal of products in cyber protection." Intego released a Windows version of its antivirus software in July 2020. Intego's newest product is Intego Privacy Protection, a VPN solution for macOS and Windows that launched circa June 2021.

Products

*VirusBarrier *NetBarrier *ContentBarrier *Personal Backup *Mac Washing Machine *Intego Antivirus for Windows *Intego Privacy Protection *Remote Management Console *FileGuard (retired) *Personal Antispam (retired)

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History

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