Re: [H] AntiVirus - Consumer Reports

2006-08-12 Thread joeuser
Opinions are like Robert Turnbull wrote: The September issue of Consumer Reports has a cover article on the best software to protect against Viruses, Spam and Spyware. They rate 12 antivirus programs and the top three are: 1. BitDefender 2. ZoneAlarm 3. Kaspersky Labs I have no idea how

Re: [H] AntiVirus - Consumer Reports

2006-08-11 Thread Jason Carson
There was a thread on here about a month ago ro so that said F-Secure was the best, here is the link... http://www.scotsnewsletter.com/83.htm#avv > The September issue of Consumer Reports has a cover article on the best > software to protect against Viruses, Spam and Spyware. > > They rate 12 ant

Re: [H] AntiVirus - Consumer Reports

2006-08-11 Thread tmservo
Yeah I saw that and shrugged Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -Original Message- From: Robert Turnbull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:51:43 To: Subject: [H] AntiVirus - Consumer Reports The September issue of Consumer Reports has a cover article on th

[H] AntiVirus - Consumer Reports

2006-08-11 Thread Robert Turnbull
The September issue of Consumer Reports has a cover article on the best software to protect against Viruses, Spam and Spyware. They rate 12 antivirus programs and the top three are: 1. BitDefender 2. ZoneAlarm 3. Kaspersky Labs I have no idea how reliable their testing is, BUT the point of this

RE: [H] Antivirus

2006-03-04 Thread Mesdaq, Ali
I never said its not different I just said it sucks -Original Message- From: "Hayes Elkins"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 3/4/06 8:17:07 AM To: "hardware@hardwaregroup.com" Subject: RE: [H] Antivirus Then you would realize by now that v10's scan engine is

RE: [H] Antivirus

2006-03-04 Thread Hayes Elkins
Then you would realize by now that v10's scan engine is completely different! From: "Mesdaq, Ali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: The Hardware List To: Subject: RE: [H] Antivirus Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 23:00:00 -0800 We use the most up to date av products -Origi

RE: [H] Antivirus

2006-03-03 Thread Mesdaq, Ali
We use the most up to date av products -Original Message- From: "Hayes Elkins"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 3/3/06 9:04:12 PM To: "hardware@hardwaregroup.com" Subject: RE: [H] Antivirus v10.0.2? (there is a significant difference in 10 vs the past versions) &g

RE: [H] Antivirus

2006-03-03 Thread Hayes Elkins
v10.0.2? (there is a significant difference in 10 vs the past versions) From: "Mesdaq, Ali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: The Hardware List To: "The Hardware List" Subject: RE: [H] Antivirus Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 16:39:00 -0800 Yes it's the corporate edition

RE: [H] Antivirus

2006-03-03 Thread Mesdaq, Ali
Yes it's the corporate edition -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hayes Elkins Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 4:28 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: RE: [H] Antivirus Are you specifically testing SAVCE, not Norton AV, but the l

Re: [H] Antivirus

2006-03-03 Thread Greg Sevart
That was my question as well. As we know, NAV <> SAVCE. Greg - Original Message - From: "Hayes Elkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 6:28 PM Subject: RE: [H] Antivirus Are you specifically testing SAVCE, not Norton AV, but the latest

RE: [H] Antivirus

2006-03-03 Thread Hayes Elkins
Are you specifically testing SAVCE, not Norton AV, but the latest SAVCE client v10.0.2? From: "Mesdaq, Ali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: The Hardware List To: "The Hardware List" Subject: RE: [H] Antivirus Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 15:59:55 -0800 Well I see malware d

RE: [H] Antivirus

2006-03-03 Thread Mesdaq, Ali
e scanners. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Sevart Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 3:10 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Antivirus Have you used it? It has caught malware on my machines that many of the other popular anti-spy

Re: [H] Antivirus

2006-03-03 Thread Greg Sevart
t; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 2:02 PM Subject: Re: [H] Antivirus Where did you hear that because its definitely not the case -Original Message- From: "Greg Sevart"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 3/3/06 10:16:07 AM To: "The Hardware List"

Re: [H] Antivirus

2006-03-03 Thread Thane Sherrington (S)
At 03:36 PM 03/03/2006, Winterlight wrote: or can it be launched from the command line to do an on-demand scan? T Yes, or from a batch file, as can all Norten anti virus products and NU appellants Thanks. T

Re: [H] Antivirus

2006-03-03 Thread Mesdaq, Ali
Where did you hear that because its definitely not the case -Original Message- From: "Greg Sevart"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 3/3/06 10:16:07 AM To: "The Hardware List" Subject: Re: [H] Antivirus I can confirm. SAV-CE is a completely different codebase from the

Re: [H] Antivirus

2006-03-03 Thread Winterlight
or can it be launched from the command line to do an on-demand scan? T Yes, or from a batch file, as can all Norten anti virus products and NU appellants

Re: [H] Antivirus

2006-03-03 Thread Thane Sherrington (S)
At 02:15 PM 03/03/2006, Greg Sevart wrote: I still argue it is among (if not the) best AV scanner available--it just isn't available to the average consumer. Most people (for good reason) hate the Norton consumer stuff, and assume that the corporate stuff is related...but nothing could be furth

RE: [H] Antivirus

2006-03-03 Thread Thane Sherrington (S)
At 01:30 PM 03/03/2006, W. D. wrote: At 10:54 3/3/2006, Jin-Wei Tioh, wrote: >At 02:28 PM 3/2/2006, you wrote: >>Norton is definitely not even close to kaspersky in detection accuracy. > >Not to mention that it seems to be more resource heavy. Always hated >the startup time degradations with Nort

Re: [H] Antivirus

2006-03-03 Thread Hayes Elkins
It has eliminated the need for any real-time malware scanner product. From: "Greg Sevart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: The Hardware List To: "The Hardware List" Subject: Re: [H] Antivirus Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 12:15:30 -0600 I can confirm. SAV-CE is a completely d

Re: [H] Antivirus

2006-03-03 Thread Greg Sevart
re--but it runs slower than anything else at this task. Greg - Original Message - From: "Hayes Elkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 11:18 AM Subject: RE: [H] Antivirus The latest Symantec AntiVirus corporate edition client (10.0.2.2020) takes

RE: [H] Antivirus

2006-03-03 Thread W. D.
At 10:54 3/3/2006, Jin-Wei Tioh, wrote: >At 02:28 PM 3/2/2006, you wrote: >>Norton is definitely not even close to kaspersky in detection accuracy. > >Not to mention that it seems to be more resource heavy. Always hated >the startup time degradations with Norton. Much improved after I >switched to

RE: [H] Antivirus

2006-03-03 Thread Hayes Elkins
ply-To: The Hardware List To: The Hardware List Subject: RE: [H] Antivirus Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 10:54:49 -0600 At 02:28 PM 3/2/2006, you wrote: Norton is definitely not even close to kaspersky in detection accuracy. Not to mention that it seems to be more resource heavy. Always hated the startu

RE: [H] Antivirus

2006-03-03 Thread Jin-Wei Tioh
At 02:28 PM 3/2/2006, you wrote: Norton is definitely not even close to kaspersky in detection accuracy. Not to mention that it seems to be more resource heavy. Always hated the startup time degradations with Norton. Much improved after I switched to Kaspersky. -- JW

RE: [H] Antivirus

2006-03-02 Thread Mesdaq, Ali
Norton is definitely not even close to kaspersky in detection accuracy. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 12:20 PM To: 'The Hardware List' Subject: RE: [H] Antivirus > -Original Messag

RE: [H] Antivirus

2006-03-02 Thread Bill
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mesdaq, Ali > Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 11:18 AM > To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com > Subject: RE: [H] Antivirus > > Well if it were feasible to do that I personally would

RE: [H] Antivirus

2006-03-02 Thread Mesdaq, Ali
ngton (S)"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 3/2/06 10:27:49 AM To: "The Hardware List" Subject: RE: [H] Antivirus At 02:15 PM 02/03/2006, Mesdaq, Ali wrote: >I am not quite sure what is on the wild list but we get stuff in our >honeypot which is definitely in the wild and compa

RE: [H] Antivirus

2006-03-02 Thread Thane Sherrington (S)
At 02:15 PM 02/03/2006, Mesdaq, Ali wrote: I am not quite sure what is on the wild list but we get stuff in our honeypot which is definitely in the wild and compare that against most vendors 60% is pretty accurate. I mean a piece of malware usually is covered by at least one vendor but no one ven

RE: [H] Antivirus

2006-03-02 Thread Mesdaq, Ali
n (S) Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 3:53 AM To: The Hardware List Subject: RE: [H] Antivirus At 12:42 AM 02/03/2006, Mesdaq, Ali wrote: >Oh I love these types of topics. Right off the bat I would say there is >NO AV that gives that great of coverage. Kaspersky(verified) has good >cover

RE: [H] Antivirus

2006-03-02 Thread Thane Sherrington (S)
At 12:42 AM 02/03/2006, Mesdaq, Ali wrote: Oh I love these types of topics. Right off the bat I would say there is NO AV that gives that great of coverage. Kaspersky(verified) has good coverage and NOD32(unverified) has good coverage. The bad part is even of these good AV vendors their coverage i

RE: [H] Antivirus

2006-03-01 Thread Mesdaq, Ali
EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zulfiqar Naushad Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 4:29 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Antivirus There used to be a time when I didn't have AV scanners. I used to know the source of my files and had precautions not to infec

RE: [H] Antivirus

2006-03-01 Thread FORC5
http://www.invircible.com/ have not used these guys in years but at least once upon a time they were darn good, have wanted to try them again and was wondering IF anyone has used them lately ? fp At 12:26 PM 3/1/2006, Bill Poked the stick with: > Is there a GOOD program that catches all viruses,

Re: [H] Antivirus

2006-03-01 Thread Veech
to over a dozen different spots, and never stops loading, in other words the page goes white and stays that way while the browser keeps clicking along... - Original Message - From: "Wayne Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "The Hardware List" Sent: Wednesday

RE: [H] Antivirus

2006-03-01 Thread Bill
> Is there a GOOD program that catches all viruses, or 99.9% of them? > > NOD32 is now my fave AV program. It is light and has a lot of good features. I think the short answer to the question is NO. Sadly, I know people that actually run multiple AV scanners though I feel that really the effect

Re: [H] Antivirus

2006-03-01 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 01:12 PM 3/1/2006, Veech typed: Anyway, their computer is now so borked that I can't even d/l any programs such as AdAware (which I wanted to reinstall) or anything else because the browser keeps getting hijacked. I tried to download Hijack This, but ended up with a program called AdwareAle

Re: [H] Antivirus

2006-03-01 Thread Veech
- Original Message - From: "Zulfiqar Naushad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 4:29 AM Subject: [H] Antivirus There used to be a time when I didn't have AV scanners. I used to know the source of my files and had precautions not to infect my m

Re: [H] Antivirus

2006-03-01 Thread Stan Zaske
Everything I've read from a great many learned people say that you need a variety of tools in your toolbox to minimize the chances of infection. But it's still going to happen no matter what we do or how diligent in our efforts to prevent it we are. They build better mousetraps all the time but

Re: [H] Antivirus

2006-03-01 Thread FORC5
WE WISH >:-} At 05:29 AM 3/1/2006, Zulfiqar Naushad Poked the stick with: >Is there a GOOD program that catches all viruses, or >99.9% of them? -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Help me quick! Someone must have turned reality back on.

[H] Antivirus

2006-03-01 Thread Zulfiqar Naushad
There used to be a time when I didn't have AV scanners. I used to know the source of my files and had precautions not to infect my machine(s). That worked till I inadvertently surfed to a shoddy website. 2 days of hair pulling later, I decided to reformat and switch 100% to firefox. That worked

Re: [H] AntiVirus Program review

2005-07-22 Thread FORC5
top notch. I am, however, glad that he rated Kaspersky highI've started pushing it to individual customers. Greg - Original Message - From: "Robert Turnbull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 11:31 AM Subject: [H] AntiVirus Program review Go to t

Re: [H] AntiVirus Program review

2005-07-22 Thread Ben Ruset
Clamwin is free and subscriptionless. I just switched to it on my laptop as well as all of the machines here at work. joeuser wrote: I've never heard of any anti-virus that wasn't a subscription. Kaspersky is a subscription though. Kaspersky new price is ~35.00 and renewal is ~25.00

Re: [H] AntiVirus Program review

2005-07-22 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 02:37 PM 22/07/2005, joeuser wrote: I've never heard of any anti-virus that wasn't a subscription. Kaspersky is a subscription though. Kaspersky new price is ~35.00 and renewal is ~25.00 Heh heh. He must be thinking AVG. :) T

Re: [H] AntiVirus Program review

2005-07-22 Thread joeuser
individual customers. Greg - Original Message - From: "Robert Turnbull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 11:31 AM Subject: [H] AntiVirus Program review Go to the URL below for an interesting assessment of the merits of various antivirus pr

Re: [H] AntiVirus Program review

2005-07-22 Thread JRS
> > > > Greg > > > > - Original Message - From: "Robert Turnbull" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: > > Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 11:31 AM > > Subject: [H] AntiVirus Program review > > > > > >> Go

Re: [H] AntiVirus Program review

2005-07-22 Thread joeuser
nal Message - From: "Robert Turnbull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 11:31 AM Subject: [H] AntiVirus Program review Go to the URL below for an interesting assessment of the merits of various antivirus programs: <http://www.suggestafix.com/index.php?act=S

Re: [H] AntiVirus Program review

2005-07-22 Thread Greg Sevart
To: Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 11:31 AM Subject: [H] AntiVirus Program review Go to the URL below for an interesting assessment of the merits of various antivirus programs: <http://www.suggestafix.com/index.php?act=ST&f=16&t=16990&s=407229a133914019ef7531bdc8207d1c> Best wishes Robert Turnbull, Toronto, Canada

[H] AntiVirus Program review

2005-07-22 Thread Robert Turnbull
Go to the URL below for an interesting assessment of the merits of various antivirus programs: Best wishes Robert Turnbull, Toronto, Canada