Security Bundles

Both Intego and Symantec offer a collection of security products that include antivirus, firewall, and various other security applications in a single package. One is Intego's super-duper, diamond-studded Platinum package, which comes with an equally inflated $150 price tag.

Symantec offers Norton Internet Security 3.0 for Macintosh, which is priced at $100 and represents the better value. Besides the firewall and antivirus software, the Norton package includes parental control software and an application that protects information you've flagged as "sensitive" from going out over the Internet without explicit permission.

Intego lives at www.intego.com. You will find Symantec at www.symantec.com.