[dba-Tech] Security measures

Erwin Craps Erwin.Craps at ithelps.be
Wed Aug 27 11:09:01 CDT 2003


Well every 4 hours should be ok to I supose.

In McAfee (Viruscan Pro version) you can choose each hour, day, week but
not every 4 xx.
It should be less than a day because 24 is a long time.

Simply stated (very simply stated) if a virus takes 24 hours to go round
the world and you update every 4 hours than you got 20% change of
getting infected before you have the update.
If you update every hour you got 4.1% chance to be infected.
That ofcourse is very theoratical... But it can...

You should also consider the time Anti Virus Companies take to realise
there is a new virus and to create and publish an antidote.
Also the country where it start (if you are in that country) and the
fact if you have International relations or not.

I can confirm that having a lot of International relations does speed up
having receiving virusses.
AccessD is pretty clean (due to all the pro's whe are, or maybe a
scanner on the relay server?!) but I have a distribution list that
contains al lot of World wide companies.
I see virusses always first in this group and about 1 to 2 days later in
my regular SME customers which have only local relations.

Erwin



-----Original Message-----
From: John Colby [mailto:jcolby at colbyconsulting.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 4:12 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Security measures


I just checked and according to help, Norton AV is set to check every 4
hours if "automatically update definitions" is set.  I see no place to
adjust the time interval.

John W. Colby
www.colbyconsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Erwin Craps
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 9:57 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Security measures


I have a small remark on the AVG update (I supose you mean the Anti
Virus update)...

Every 3 days is not suffcient...
Every hour is more likely the best schedule today.

Remember that "I love you" and all those other new virus went around the
world in 24 hours... So if you only update once every tree days, and you
just had your update when the new virus comes in, you have bad luck.

Every 3 days is really not enough, once a day could be suffciant but I
install all virusscanners at customers at every hour!!!

Ofcourse Mcafee brings out minimal 1 update per week, unless big problem
virus come up, 2 or 3 updates a week are not that uncommon.

Take my worth, every hour is a necesaty.


Erwin


-----Original Message-----
From: Porter, Mark [mailto:MPorter at acsalaska.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 2:56 AM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Security measures


Not really.  I do regular windows updates, and the AVG update is on
automatic for every 3 days.  I do backups and ghosts every once in a
while just incase, though.

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven W. Erbach [mailto:serbach at new.rr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 1:55 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Security measures


Mark,

This is just the kind of thing I've been looking for. Thank you.

Do you do anything special to keep up-to-date on Internet and PC
security? Or are you now so well protected that nothing fazes you
anymore?

Regards,

Steve Erbach
Scientific Marketing
Neenah, WI

If architects built buildings the way programmers built applications,
the first woodpecker to come along would cause the end of civilization.


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