Advice from the IT people sought

[knucklehead]

As a lot have people have stated above AVG is currently better than Norton.

One of our corporate IT guys tried to install some software on my laptop. AVG said it was a virus, McAfee (corporate) said it was O.K. Further investigation showed it was a virus and the software has been deployed to hundreds of PCs before my freeware AVG picked it up.

However AVG does let the occasional worm slip through.

As an additional sanity check I use "house call" from Trend Micro.
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
This has found stuff that no other scanner has. The real beauty is that it is not installed on your PC therefore is harder for the virus to circumvent.
There are others offering this type of scan but I have not used them.

[bitingmidge]

Further to my smarty pants post above, I actually have a bit of a dilemma. With the Mac world so free (not immune) from disease, I have a very basic AV setup, and while I am diligent about not opening suspicious attachments etc, "One Day" someone somewhere is going to launch a "Mac Attack".

When that happens, I don't think we'll be ready, and it will be a case of fixing the thing after the event, which is my interpretation of what happens in the PC world now, it's just that there are so many viruses floating round, that existing ones get fixed... new ones get through the net.

So.. do I buy the best frontline defence, which after all doesn't have to defend itself against anything at the moment, or do I wait for the war to begin??

Cheers,

P

[BJP]

I use Computer Associates "ezAntivirus" it`s been good for me, $20 a year now, used to be free.

[craigb]

dont get the emails from Sophos though, worse than spam.

I've never had an email from Sophos Benny. :confused:

[Cliff Rogers]

Further to my smarty pants post above, I actually have a bit of a dilemma. .....So.. do I buy the best frontline defence, which after all doesn't have to defend itself against anything at the moment, or do I wait for the war to begin??....

Why wait?
Ditch the old Mac & get into Windaze now.
You won't have to worry about it any longer.

[arose62]

Another vote for ZoneAlarm

And it's worth a serious look at FireFox for browsing, and it's got a usefull addon called No-Script which allows you to block or selectively allow Java and other scripts on web pages.

I also recently read of VMware releasing a free virtual machine to run your browser in, so any nasties coming in via webpages can only infect the virtual machine, which gets thrown away at the end of the browsing session.

Cheers,
Andrew

[bennylaird]

I've never had an email from Sophos Benny. :confused:

I made the mistake of subscribing lol.

[Barry_White]

My grandson is a systems engineer and has tested them all. He reckons Norton is on the bottom of the pile.

He says that the best one is called Kaspersky which I have been using now for 18 months and nothing gets past it. About $50 year.

Go here and have a look. http://www.kaspersky.com/

[MathewA]

Further to my smarty pants post above, I actually have a bit of a dilemma. With the Mac world so free (not immune) from disease, I have a very basic AV setup, and while I am diligent about not opening suspicious attachments etc, "One Day" someone somewhere is going to launch a "Mac Attack".

When that happens, I don't think we'll be ready, and it will be a case of fixing the thing after the event, which is my interpretation of what happens in the PC world now, it's just that there are so many viruses floating round, that existing ones get fixed... new ones get through the net.

So.. do I buy the best frontline defence, which after all doesn't have to defend itself against anything at the moment, or do I wait for the war to begin??

Cheers,

P

It will never happen excluding ipods) because macs will never be popular. :eek:. Robin Williams summed up being a mac owner. It's like buying , they're in a dark corner somewhere in the back of the store

[RETIRED]

I use QuickHeal and haven't had a virus yet. It automatically updates 2-3 times a day.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

To be safe on the 'net, there's three things to look out for:

• virii
• spy-ware
• security intrusions

Virii, we all know about. They've a variety of effects but the one thing they all have in common is they replicate themselves.

Spy-ware can be considered similar to virii, except they don't replicate.

Intrusions, (port-scans, stack-overflows, etc) on the other hand are usually dedicated to finding security loopholes on your system, to allow unauthorised access.

IMHO, any package that attempts to defend against all three is doomed to failure from conception; you're better served by running seperate SW each dedicated to it's own respective area.

Personally I leave AVG runnning resident, as my "general purpose" anti-viral tool. I'll second Kaspersky, which I run on a weekly rota for system scans just to back up AVG. Norton's has well'n'truly outlived its' use-by date. Many modern virii include sub-routines which cripple NAV as part of the infection process. AVG is free, Kaspersky is commercial.

Ad-Aware and Spybot are the basics for anti-spyware. So long as my WAN is open, they're running. And they're freeware.

For deliberate intrusions? Black Ice. Don't bother with XP's inbuilt pretend firewall, you don't need a brick to break Windoze. I believe Zone Alarm is freeware, but it doesn't really provide enough feedback or alternative options for me; I want to know the MAC and DNS's of whoever's querying my servers. Then the fun can start. :eek:

[Bulwinkle]

Hi

I'm a Network Administrator who looks after over 400 Servers/PC's for a Local West Aust Govt. We run Trend Antivirus and we have never had a virus get through to any system.(touch wood oops this isn't the wood section forgive me ;0) )

There is a home version (we have licenses for our staff for home use) I have used it for the last 4 years (update program and virus patterns of course)
After having major troubles with VET, No-Trons (nortons) I used McAffee but still had some viruses getting through. Since moving to Trend PC-cillin(Now Trend Internet Security 2006) not a thing has gotten thru and the same goes for all our staff that use it.

No I have no affiliations etc just one helluva impressed customer.

As Yul Bryner said
"Now that I'm gone, I tell you: USE TREND, whatever you do, USE TREND,
- Whatever you do, don't use the others, Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.”

Well that might be a few quote melded and tinkered but you get the picture, right.

Has anyone seen Rocky?

[bennylaird]

Rocky is at home sleeping, Natasha is probably hiding from the boys and I lost Boris 3 years back. Couldn't bring myself to call the 4th Bullwinkle though so he got Riply and the new one is Cooper so that's it for our dog's names.

[Groggy]

Rocky is at home sleeping, Natasha is probably hiding from the boys and I lost Boris 3 years back. Couldn't bring myself to call the 4th Bullwinkle though so he got Riply and the new one is Cooper so that's it for our dog's names.

Wrong thread Benny?

[bennylaird]

Wrong thread Benny?

Nah just hijacking it to answer the question, "where's Rocky?"