Gustav Brock
Gustav at cactus.dk
Fri Oct 17 03:48:36 CDT 2008
Hi John Updated CounterSpy and now Vipre is running and seems to work fine. Its GUI carries a small window about the current malware threat. For those interested, that info can be retrieved on its own from here: http://research.sunbeltsoftware.com/RMP/ /gustav >>> Gustav at cactus.dk 03-08-2008 19:03 >>> Hi John Yes, but some clients must get burned before they learn. I'll check that Vipre out. Thanks. /gustav >>> john at winhaven.net 03-08-2008 18:50 >>> Hi Gustav, IME prevention is the key to these nasty things. CounterSpy and even more so Vipre will prevent this and a high percentage of others from installing in the first place. Removal tools like this are great for the immediate remediation but IMO address the problem too late. Try Vipre - it's a new generation of security tool, built from the ground up rather than pieced together. I'd been beta testing it for about 6 months before they finally released it to the public. Quite amazing the low resource use it takes but the effectiveness of it. And it will only get better. They're pumping a lot of work into new generation of threats and detecting rootkits early on and such. They also have the capability of adding port control (firewall) into Vipre. Its an exciting new, lean and mean security tool. The current version of CounterSpy is still the second generation tool, it will be upgraded shortly to be the new leaner and even more effective. John B.