[dba-Tech] Need New AV -- Suggestions?

>Any comments about McAfee? Any suggestions on the best AV software
>available now?

McAfee was as bad for us as Norton. Grisoft AntiVirus ("AVG") works for 
us. Free, stable, updates daily (quickly), and nary a virus has got 
through (over a year now, I think).

P.


Ron Allen wrote:

>I've been using -- no, make that "I've been a fairly passionate user
>and advocate" -- of TrendMicro PCCillin AV for some years now.
>
>Over the past several months, I have repeatedly, as in at least 4 or 5
>times, had the system tray icon for PCCillin Internet Security
>suddenly and with no apparent cause simply disappear. When this
>happens, when I go to update the pattern file manually it tells me
>"that function is still initializing". Since I don't check my system
>tray every time I sit down, and have absolutely no desire to, I could
>conceivably go for weeks or months before noticing that my AV is yet
>again not receiving autoupdates and yet again I have this annoying
>problem. I have been around and around with Trend support, and each
>time they have either fixed the problem with a patch or it has
>mysteriously "gone away" after I contact them.
>
>I've about had it with this. Whatever is causing this problem should
>have been fixed long ago. I've worked with them on at least four
>separate times and I think it's been more than that. I'm reasonably
>sure that I'm not the only one to be experiencing this issue, since
>they always seem to have an answer, yet I can't locate this error
>condition addressed in their kb. They never give me a definitive
>reason for why it's happening, and although they fix it, some way,
>each time, it keeps coming back. My theory is that their definitions
>update contains something that causes this, and when my instance
>auto-updates I get the bad file again and the whole cycle starts over.
>
>Be that as it may, I'm ready to change AV. I want to go with a
>professional company that has regular updates and decent software that
>will only minimally impact my system. I'm leaning toward McAfee at
>this point, and am pretty well set against Norton. I won't use AVG or
>Panda because they each totally trashed my system a few years ago;
>once burned forever shy.
>
>Any comments about McAfee? Any suggestions on the best AV software
>available now?
>
>Thanks for any advice.
>
>Ron
>
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