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Walter Watts
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virus: antiviral advice
« on: 2004-03-23 02:44:30 » |
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I currently use HouseCall to check for viruses:
http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/start_corp.asp
While it's been very good, it's online and I have to initiate the scans
(therefore their virus signature files are VERY up to date when you do
scan).
However, due to the current level of viral attacks coming not only from
email, but IRC and IM clients, I'm thinking of getting some real-time,
memory resident monitoring type antivirus software. I found a list of
the top 8 for Windoze for 2004:
http://antivirus.about.com/cs/beforeyoubuy/tp/aatpavwin.htm
Anyone have any recommendation from this list?
My two top concerns are the effectiveness and timeliness of their virus
signature files and system resource overhead (I guess that's three
concerns).
Thanks in advance,
Walter
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RE: virus: antiviral advice
« Reply #1 on: 2004-03-23 05:46:13 » |
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Walter Watts
Sent: 23 March 2004 09:45 AM
My two top concerns are the effectiveness and timeliness of their virus
signature files and system resource overhead (I guess that's three
concerns).
[Blunderov]You may want to take into consideration the threat of
'spyware'. Whilst not nearly as serious as a virus, a sufficient
accumulation of the beasties may slow your system down, not to mention
the privacy issues. I use 'Xblock'.
Another useful program is 'Sentinel'; it can be configured to perform a
scan on bootup of file types capable of hosting virii, and pass any
files which have been changed since the last bootup to the virus scanner
for further examination. By this means you may hope to quickly limit any
damage that a virus is able to cause if your machine does happen to
become infected.
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Re:virus: antiviral advice
« Reply #2 on: 2004-03-24 10:03:25 » |
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[Walter]
http://antivirus.about.com/cs/beforeyoubuy/tp/aatpavwin.htm
Anyone have any recommendation from this list?
My two top concerns are the effectiveness and timeliness of their virus signature files and system resource overhead (I guess that's three concerns).
[rhinoceros]
Yes, real-time virus detection is a must. I could use some suggestions myself. I mostly care for the 3rd concern (resource overhead and obtrusiveness), not whether they can detect 100,000 viruses instead of 80,000. Bonuses (doing more than virus detection) are generally a minus for me (except if they are very well-done, of course).
It can be annoying when your antivirus program crashes (or you close it for some reason) and then your email stops working because the antivirus program had installed a proxy of its own. Obtrusiveness was the main reason I cleaned my system from anything related to Norton, although their antivirus detection was top class.
Now I am using a free version of AVG Antivirus (version 6, updated only once a month). Combined with a little bit of common sense it is good for my needs and -- most importantly -- it stays invisible. I gave a ride to their commercial trial version 7 just in case it is my solution, but I found that they have taken steps in the wrong direction (obtrusiveness).
I'd love to hear a good suggestion.
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