What Anti-Virus ?
02 April 2004, 03:08 PM
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Fair point Jase 
As JackClark and others have said. Anti virus and a firewall are esstianals if you are surfing. They are NOT optional. The fact that they can both be had for free is even better.
Chris
As JackClark and others have said. Anti virus and a firewall are esstianals if you are surfing. They are NOT optional. The fact that they can both be had for free is even better.
Chris
08 April 2004, 03:58 PM
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SiDHEaD
pc started playing up , notepad got corrupted, so from then i went checking , eventually found out it was
NIKLAS.A ,
got free trial of norton and it found it, but AVG 7 reported system as being fine
email me if you want to talk more
jase
pc started playing up , notepad got corrupted, so from then i went checking , eventually found out it was
NIKLAS.A ,
got free trial of norton and it found it, but AVG 7 reported system as being fine
email me if you want to talk more
jase
08 April 2004, 09:08 PM
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Don't overlook NOD32 by Eset. Highly rated in the industry and in independant tests (http://www.virusbtn.com).
Also puts very little stress on your system (low CPU & Memory usage while running as a background process).
It's heuristics are pretty damn good too - caught a newer variant of 'NetSky' before it actually *knew* what it was.
Also puts very little stress on your system (low CPU & Memory usage while running as a background process).
It's heuristics are pretty damn good too - caught a newer variant of 'NetSky' before it actually *knew* what it was.
08 April 2004, 10:35 PM
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Sophos, Norton, And NAI- all ****e...., I work for an ISP and SW/HW Support Company, We will only supply Trend Micro. Best AV Software you can get both commerically and domestic.
www.antivirus.com
Haxzer ;-)
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08 April 2004, 10:44 PM
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Originally Posted by sti555
Norton AV too, the memory thing is rubbish..
NOD32 has a very small resource footprint - fact.
This whole thread can very simply be put to rest with the results from here:
http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archives/products.xml
Virus Bulletin is unbiased & widely recognised in the industry as the test for AV packages.
09 April 2004, 09:52 AM
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> Virus Bulletin is unbiased & widely recognised in the industry as the test for AV packages.
Not by me and I've worked in Antivirus for 11 odd years. Don't you find it funny that they share the same address as an antivirus company? We - McAfee - missed loads of VB100's the only reason being that we wouldn't develop our products to pass their tests, prefering to develop a product that efficiently deals with real world threats.
I do however agree that NOD32 is a great product and resource hogging is an issue, hence our latest consumer product is the most lightweight we've ever produced.
If anyone wants to do a full test, bring your antivirus to our labs and we'll have a shoot out. I have a comprehensive virus collection we can test against, you'll be surprised by the results.
And don't forget, more Impreza drivers work for McAfee.
Not by me and I've worked in Antivirus for 11 odd years. Don't you find it funny that they share the same address as an antivirus company? We - McAfee - missed loads of VB100's the only reason being that we wouldn't develop our products to pass their tests, prefering to develop a product that efficiently deals with real world threats.
I do however agree that NOD32 is a great product and resource hogging is an issue, hence our latest consumer product is the most lightweight we've ever produced.
If anyone wants to do a full test, bring your antivirus to our labs and we'll have a shoot out. I have a comprehensive virus collection we can test against, you'll be surprised by the results.
And don't forget, more Impreza drivers work for McAfee.
09 April 2004, 07:44 PM
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Has anyone found a cure / work-around for the NIS crunching email connections in Outlook and saying it's the server timing out, i.e.
Task 'apple.dd - Receiving' reported error (0x8004210A) : 'The operation timed out waiting for a response from the receiving (POP) server. If you continue to receive this message, contact your server administrator or Internet service provider (ISP).'
If I uninstall NIS, I get email back again...
I used AVG and ZAP for a while but never felt as comfortable with them - I haven't tried McAfee or Sophos yet
Task 'apple.dd - Receiving' reported error (0x8004210A) : 'The operation timed out waiting for a response from the receiving (POP) server. If you continue to receive this message, contact your server administrator or Internet service provider (ISP).'
If I uninstall NIS, I get email back again...
I used AVG and ZAP for a while but never felt as comfortable with them - I haven't tried McAfee or Sophos yet
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13 April 2004, 01:25 PM
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Just to add that there is an industry standard non harmful test virus (EICAR) that all antivirus software is supposed to recognise so you can test your installation works. The free version of AVG FAILS this test completely and on emailing AVG their only reply was upgrade to V7 (confidence inspiring NOT).
Oh and if you use McAfee at work then you can pay £1 for a licence and get the consumer version of VirusScan for your home PC - good value I'd say.
Oh and if you use McAfee at work then you can pay £1 for a licence and get the consumer version of VirusScan for your home PC - good value I'd say.
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13 April 2004, 01:58 PM
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>>Oh and if you use McAfee at work then you can pay £1 for a licence and get the >>consumer version of VirusScan for your home PC - good value I'd say.
Not in all cases. And your company would have to produce the discs and provide support.
Not in all cases. And your company would have to produce the discs and provide support.
13 April 2004, 03:27 PM
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Originally Posted by JackClark
>>Oh and if you use McAfee at work then you can pay £1 for a licence and get the >>consumer version of VirusScan for your home PC - good value I'd say.
Not in all cases. And your company would have to produce the discs and provide support.
Not in all cases. And your company would have to produce the discs and provide support.
Having spoken to my distributor he tells me that the boxed consumer product would be sent out which I would then pass to the user to load to their system. Please advise what the exceptions are?
Thanks
Henry
14 April 2004, 03:10 PM
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Originally Posted by aqua
Just to add that there is an industry standard non harmful test virus (EICAR) that all antivirus software is supposed to recognise so you can test your installation works. The free version of AVG FAILS this test completely and on emailing AVG their only reply was upgrade to V7 (confidence inspiring NOT).
Oh and if you use McAfee at work then you can pay £1 for a licence and get the consumer version of VirusScan for your home PC - good value I'd say.
Oh and if you use McAfee at work then you can pay £1 for a licence and get the consumer version of VirusScan for your home PC - good value I'd say.
Cheers
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16 April 2004, 05:13 PM
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CA etrust. $10/year subs. We use it corporately as well.
BTW zonealarm doesn't work with Windows 95.
BTW zonealarm doesn't work with Windows 95.
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16 April 2004, 08:28 PM
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We use sophos at work but it really is a bit of a PITA - mailing out CDs each month seems a bit stoneage in the era of broadband. plus the auto-update procedure isn't the easiest for a non-geek like me to get to grips with. Use NAV at home as it is about 10 times easier to operate than sophos and seems more than adequately effective.
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