I have mine set to update everyday at 2. I seem to remember that a Symantec tech once told me they release "regular" updates every Thursday. Regardless, I show in my log that it pulled an updated on the 18th and then again on the 23rd (2/23/04 rev. 7). And, as has been mentioned before you can grab the betas when in doubt.
Nothing is perfect and everyone has different experiences. And yes, it would be nice to see some serious penalties applied to the virus writers, but Im day dreaming now aren't I? -----Original Message----- From: Waters, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 12:36 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: NETSKY.C out..Heads up! You are right about that, however Symantec blew the .F big-time. We run Trend on our Exchange Server, and Trend on our servers and desktops. I have been blocking .zip's since the 20th when the .F came out. Trend had their def's updated within 2 hours. Symantec did not have a definition out until sometime after 8pm(est) on the 23rd. How do I know this you ask, well our scheduled live updates run at 8pm and we didn't get the update. Unfortunately for us, one of our users accessed his personnel web-mail about 9am yesterday and got the .F on our computer. There really was not good reason for an update to take that long, not to mention that before this set of updates (24th) their last update was the 18th. I like Symantec, and I like having different vendors on Exchange and the Desktop, but this time Symantec took it in the a** and we are paying the price. The good news is it only took out one system, the bad news is that I am going to be restoring data late tonight to fix what got deleted. That one system had over a hundred .zip files on it, and deposited well over 300 out onto the file servers he was mapped to. Our saving grace is that no one else opened up one of those .zip files on the server. We are currently blocking about 50-75 .zip's an hour right now!!! I wish they would get one of these idiots that write these and cane them in the middle of time square on national TV. -----Original Message----- From: Chris H [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 2:42 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: NETSKY.C out..Heads up! I have found you can ask 10 people and get 10 different answers. Do you like Dell or Compaq? Ask 10 people and see what they say. Mileage varies. I have had *zero* problems with Symantec and I came over from Trend who IMO has lousy tech support. I have not had a single client or server infected since moving and my updates are almost instantaneous once the Primary server is updated. I am very happy with them! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Holtzclaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 2:32 PM Subject: RE: NETSKY.C out..Heads up! I ran a manual update and it updated to the newest file patterns and went to there site with no answer to that variant. I knew the PC was infected with random zip file start appearing from what Trend described. Sorry, if you like Symantec buy U got burned!! Eric -----Original Message----- From: Chinnery, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 10:42 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: NETSKY.C out..Heads up! Didn't the client force an update or can't you do that with Symantec? Paul Chinnery Network Administrator Mem Med Ctr -----Original Message----- From: Eric Holtzclaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 1:37 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: NETSKY.C out..Heads up! Symantec sucks, one of my clients had many infected PC's with doom.f because there not update for 3 1/2 days and Trend and MacAfee did. Not to mention the "I love you virus" was updated again by trend not Symantec Eric -----Original Message----- From: Chris H [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 10:23 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: NETSKY.C out..Heads up! That's what I like about Symantec's gateway . . . gets inside the zip . . . of course it is a pain when you *need* to send an EXE but oh well . . . ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pfefferkorn, Pete (pfeffepe)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 1:18 PM Subject: RE: NETSKY.C out..Heads up! > Wasn't blocking ZIP attachments. Trend now has a pattern available as well. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris H > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 1:12 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Re: NETSKY.C out..Heads up! > > It is using the attachments types we all usually block anyway no? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Pfefferkorn, Pete (pfeffepe)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 12:21 PM > Subject: NETSKY.C out..Heads up! > > > > I just started receiving messages that are being blocked based on > attachment > > type. 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