Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Thu Oct 1 10:36:59 CDT 2009
Ha ha ha... I was wondering what the comments would be. I just installed Vipre, a couple of days ago, on a client server, one that they had a full enterprise version of Symantecs on (They felt Vipre would be better priced and the Symantecs license was coming to an end). Ran Vipre once and dicovered one Adware, one Trojan and two miscellaneous viruses that Symantecs had missed. Enough said. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 12:38 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Free security software from Microsoft Hi Jim, It's been said that they can't sell it because it's not good enough so they're giving it away. Time will tell. I see this as an advantage to stopping some of the widespread malware that MS can detect and clean but not a solution a business should consider. Similar to AVG or the better free solutions like Avira Free AV and such. If these companies thought their free products would hurt their sales they wouldn't be giving them away. John B. BTW I think everyone should say adios to the suites from Symantec, Micro Trend, McAfee, Panda... ;o) -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 11:24 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: [dba-Tech] Free security software from Microsoft A free antivirus and antispyware software suite is being released by Microsoft at: http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials Does this mean 'adios' to suites from Symantec, Micro Trend and even stan alones like Vipre etc? Jim _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com