[dba-Tech] Antivirus Software - Who do we like, who do we notlike?

On 5/25/05, Jon Tydda <jon at tydda.plus.com> wrote:
> Yeah, to prove it, I've just run trojan hunter and trend micro's sysclean
> (just to check for myself too) and they've both come up clean.
> 
> 
> Jon
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Kathryn
> Bassett
> Sent: 25 May 2005 22:30
> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
> Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Antivirus Software - Who do we like, who do we
> notlike?
> 
> 
> I could have written Jon's message. I've lost track of how many years I've
> used McAfee -it's been as long as there has been an internet need for it.
> I've *never* had an infection. I also use SpyBot and AdAware.
> 

It's the typical YMMV.  I remember McAfee from back in the days of
Network Associates and having it run a typical boot scan before win
3.1 would even boot up... But even tho here at work we went from NAV
to McAfee 4.6 and now we're up to 8, I continue to find that many
people's machines continue to get infected reguardless... and From my
own experiance a Full Disk Scan is not a full disk scan.. I run a
defrag software called dirms which moves all fragmented files on the
disk... often times the McAfee onAccess will fire off because the
dirms software is attempting to defrag a trojan file on the disk. 
McAfee should have caught this file at the gate and prevented it from
ever loading... I'm much more secure now-a-days.. ie, running IE only
when absoutly necessary. I keep a firewall on my pc at all times. 
Here at work whenever someone would be caught w/ a virus I
automatically went to TrendMicro's HouseCall.. now that I'm Trying out
NOD32, it IS a great product. it's lightweight, scan your entire disk,
has an internet/ms document/onaccess monitor... scheduler etc.



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