[dba-Tech] Software Firewalls

On 5 Dec 2004 at 19:17, Bryan Carbonnell wrote:

> On 5 Dec 2004 at 14:04, Rocky Smolin - Beach Access S wrote:
> 
> > So what do you use for AV?
> 
> I used McAfee, until work was giving out free licenced copies of 
> eTrust AV, by Computer Associates 
> (http://www3.ca.com/Solutions/Product.asp?ID=156)
> 
> As soon as I uninstalled McAfee, I noticed a huge system performance 
> gain, that stayed even after I installed eTrust.
> 

But Bryan,  you use Pegasus Mail and Firefox so why bother with the 
performance hit of on-access scanning anyway :-)

Just use Martin's Ireland's Virscan and a daily scheduled on-demand system 
scan during a quiet period.

-- 
Stuart