RE: Whitelisting

2012-04-16 Thread Alex Eckelberry
A BHO is a DLL, in other words, a PE file. As is an OCX. These would be/should be covered by a competent whitelisting solution. AFAIK, Javascript can't do much malicious in and of itself except crash your browser or do other weird stuff. Where it is malicious is when it can execute Windows

RE: Whitelisting

2012-04-16 Thread Alex Eckelberry
blacklist all possible bad data files? >> --Original Message-- >> From: Crawford, Scott >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: RE: Whitelisting >> Sent: 14 Apr 2012 18:02 >> >> A combination is needed.

RE: Whitelisting

2012-04-16 Thread Alex Eckelberry
n Issues ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Whitelisting Sent: 14 Apr 2012 18:02 A combination is needed. Whitelisting for traditional executable code and blacklisting for data files that exploit vulnerable white listed applications. -----Original Message- From: Alex Eckelberry [mailto:a

Whitelisting

2012-04-14 Thread Alex Eckelberry
I'm curious, what's the general feeling about about whitelisting? As a former AV guy, I tend to prefer blacklisting, but I'm seeing signs things might be changing. Thoughts? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: OT: Position in Pennsylvania

2012-02-08 Thread Alex Eckelberry
If you want a response to this post, simply add that you're paying $12-$25 per hour and require the creation of sales and marketing materials as well as sales of maintenance agreements (in addition to representation at Chamber of Commerce meetings) The last post was fun to watch.

Re: Patch management software...

2012-01-30 Thread Alex Eckelberry
If it includes adobe and flash patching that is a sweet deal. Apart from windows those are the two programs that need vigilant patching. Alex Eckelberry www.eckelberry.com (c) 727 – 644 – 8830 Sent from my iPhone (Please excuse the occasional typos) On Jan 30, 2012, at 11:26 PM, Marc Maiffret

Re: Patch management software...

2012-01-30 Thread Alex Eckelberry
If you want cheap/free try ninite and wsus combined. Otherwise gfi languard is very inexpensive. Shavlik is is very good but might not fit your budget. Lumension is also decent but it is not cheap. Alex Eckelberry www.eckelberry.com (c) 727 – 644 – 8830 Sent from my iPhone (Please excuse the

RE: PC that can't Google

2012-01-12 Thread Alex Eckelberry
Did you check the PC's DNS settings? Alex Eckelberry www.eckelberry.com <http://www.eckelberry.com/> c 727 644 8830 Skype: alexeckelberry From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subj

RE: Happy Friday

2011-11-04 Thread Alex Eckelberry
<ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mosaic/> ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mosaic/ Alex Eckelberry www.eckelberry.com <http://www.eckelberry.com/> c 727 644 8830 Skype: alexeckelberry From: Greg Olson [mailto:gol...@markettools.com] Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 6:51 PM To: NT

RE: GOOD or Mobile Iron??? MDM

2011-10-28 Thread Alex Eckelberry
Couple of things about Athena: - Very good technology. In fact, you'll find that most of the MDM players actually license the Athena SDK. - Limited console options. You're going to need to use Configman. Alex Eckelberry www.eckelberry.com <http://www.e

RE: A more generalized comparison of AV products

2011-10-13 Thread Alex Eckelberry
Yes, a rather odd summary... there are issues with this review. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 8:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: A more generalized comparison of AV products More about system load than efficacy,

RE: Android Handset Makers - Adding Value or Vulnerabilities?

2011-10-12 Thread Alex Eckelberry
Windows Phone is a central part of Microsoft's future strategy around a seamless, "blurred" endpoint, encompassing any internet-connected device. Just look at Windows 8. This is the OS platform for phones, desktops, tablets, TVs, whatever. With Blackberry dying a slow and somewhat comical dea

RE: AV and malware protection?

2011-10-09 Thread Alex Eckelberry
to:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2011 1:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issue Subject: Re: AV and malware protection? On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Alex Eckelberry wrote: > It's worth noting that MalwareBytes is not an antivirus product. > It is, however, an excellent prot

RE: AV and malware protection?

2011-10-09 Thread Alex Eckelberry
It's worth noting that MalwareBytes is not an antivirus product. It is, however, an excellent protecter/cleaner against modern Trojans and rogue antivirus products. From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 1:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issue

RE: FYI: Vipre crushing bandwidth

2011-09-21 Thread Alex Eckelberry
Yes, we had a bad definition file go out and this affected some customers as a full new definition file had to be downloaded. It was fixed within several hours. I sincerely apologize for the hassle this may have caused! Alex Alex Eckelberry General Manager, Security Business Unit GFI

Re: * Dramatic Overhaul of Windows GUI: Video

2011-06-03 Thread Alex Eckelberry
Alex Eckelberry Cell: 727-644-8830 Sent from my BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Mike Gill To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Thu Jun 02 20:13:25 2011 Subject: RE: * Dramatic Overhaul of Windows GUI: Video Hmm, looks familiar: http://www.mosaicbytribune.com/ Not at

RE: * My New Book Is Out: CYBERHEIST

2011-04-30 Thread Alex Eckelberry
Book Is Out: CYBERHEIST Convert the PDF to .mobi with Caliber first. Then transfer to your Kindle with the u...@free.kindle.com address. BF -Original Message- From: Alex Eckelberry [mailto:al...@sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 10:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Su

RE: * My New Book Is Out: CYBERHEIST

2011-04-29 Thread Alex Eckelberry
I have had little luck being able to read PDF material, at least on my smaller Kindle (perhaps the DX is better). Maybe there is a secret, but I haven't found it. It apparently converts each page to a graphic. -Original Message- From: Gary Cordell [mailto:ga...@ers.tcoe.org] Sent: F

RE: Laptop confusion

2011-04-19 Thread Alex Eckelberry
d a lot of Toshiba tablet PCs (in the day, they were the only serious TabletPC vendor) From: Alex Eckelberry [mailto:al...@sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Wednesday, 20 April 2011 12:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Laptop confusion This is out of left field, but as someone who has owne

RE: Laptop confusion

2011-04-19 Thread Alex Eckelberry
This is out of left field, but as someone who has owned probably every laptop known to mankind, I will say that I recently bought a Toshiba and was very, very impressed. Outstanding build quality and a bunch of very useful built-in tools. Price is certainly very competitive against the major

RE: Good iPhone Network Apps

2011-04-15 Thread Alex Eckelberry
Teamviewer From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 10:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Good iPhone Network Apps Get "Jump" and rdp to any server/pc you want. Works great. From: Dennis Krebs [mailto:dennis.kr...@advancedav.com] Sent: Friday, Ap

RE: OT: WiFi Repeater recommendations

2011-04-02 Thread Alex Eckelberry
We installed a microwave link between buildings in Florida, it's worked swimmingly well (no pun intended). I would highly recommend looking at that option. And yes, it is very humid and wet down here, as you might imagine. Alex From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, Apri

RE: Samsung keylogger with Vipre mention

2011-03-31 Thread Alex Eckelberry
I agree. We've pulled it. From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 12:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Samsung keylogger with Vipre mention HIJACK!!! OTOH, GFI might want to reconsider the advertizing sticker on the front cove

RE: Samsung keylogger with Vipre mention

2011-03-31 Thread Alex Eckelberry
I wrote a response this morning: http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/samsung-laptops-do-not-have-keylogger.html Alex From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 9:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Samsung keylogger with Vipre mention I f

RE: Anyone recommendations for Cloud server hosting?

2011-03-30 Thread Alex Eckelberry
we use peak10 and like it. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 12:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone recommendations for Cloud server hosting? RackSpace is very good in this space. What will you be doing?Microsoft or Amazon will

RE: Clearwater, Florida usability testing

2011-03-29 Thread Alex Eckelberry
testing Throw in airfare, hotel and a rental car and I'm there! I hear there's a nice place called The Breeze down there somewhere that would be good for a post-testing libation. On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Alex Eckelberry mailto:al...@sunbelt-software.com>> wrote: Anyone in th

RE: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-12 Thread Alex Eckelberry
All I can say is that we're good friends, and we have a partnership with them that's largely a web page: http://vipre.malwarebytes.org But nothing more concrete. From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 3:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subje

RE: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-12 Thread Alex Eckelberry
We had many talks with Gartner. All I can say is that they didn't seem to understand that we don't want to add 1,000 endless features to make the "feature checkbox" game. We will continue to impress upon them that we never want to be like anyone else. Gartner does not actually use the produ

RE: web content filtering in the SMB

2011-02-01 Thread Alex Eckelberry
I’m biased, but: http://www.gfi.com/internet-monitoring-software From: James Hill [mailto:james.h...@superamart.com.au] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 4:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: web content filtering in the SMB I’m a big fan of WebMarshal. Out of the box settings are goo

RE: DNS latency

2011-01-30 Thread Alex Eckelberry
Nsbench? http://www.dslreports.com/faq/15890 From: Matthew Bullock [mailto:mbull...@root9.com] Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 1:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DNS latency You can try using dig +trace, never used it on a windows box but this might help you out: http://unroutab

RE: Intel developing security 'game-changer'

2011-01-27 Thread Alex Eckelberry
Well, since the vast majority of infections occur because of social engineering, I don't think it will mean much at all. An analogy might be DEP, which did make some difference - that was something at the kernel. But not a huge difference. I would put this in the same pot. At the end of the d

RE: Freeware PDF creator?

2011-01-20 Thread Alex Eckelberry
Just don't take them on a plane. -Original Message- From: Terry Dickson [mailto:te...@treasurer.state.ks.us] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 9:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Freeware PDF creator? You might try etoner.com I think I saw it there. -Original Message-

RE: free PDF "printer"

2011-01-18 Thread Alex Eckelberry
CutePDF and BullZip PDF. I find Bullzip PDF just outstanding. -Original Message- From: Orland, Kathleen [mailto:korl...@rogers.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 3:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: free PDF "printer" +1 for Primo. Have used it on a variety of O/S from W2

RE: AppAssure Replay4

2011-01-17 Thread Alex Eckelberry
I will say that one of our guys took a good look at it a couple of years ago and came back very, very impressed. It's a very slick product. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 7:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AppAssure Replay4 I evalua

RE: Small/Mid Firewall?

2010-12-31 Thread Alex Eckelberry
For a nice free SME firewall, I might look at Smoothwall express http://www.smoothwall.org/ Alex From: Ben Schorr [mailto:b...@rolandschorr.com] Sent: Friday, December 31, 2010 12:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Small/Mid Firewall? Well I think part of the frustration is that ap

RE: videos from hulu

2010-12-31 Thread Alex Eckelberry
her tip on Hulu - if you're overseas, you can't view it. But you can with HMA - absolutely the best VPN/proxy solution I've ever found: http://hidemyass.com/vpn/ Alex Alex Eckelberry VP and General Manager, Security Business Unit GFI Software, Inc. (formerly Sunbelt Software) 33 N. Ga

RE: ESET anti virus- admin console

2010-12-16 Thread Alex Eckelberry
We just surveyed 1400 system administrators on all antivirus products. This includes ESET users. Happy to share off-list if you like. There are specific comments about console, management, deployment, detection, etc., pros and cons of all AV products, including ours. Just email me off-list.

RE: vipre: SVCHOST.EXE virus.

2010-11-18 Thread Alex Eckelberry
VIPRE has full coverage of Conficker, including all the new variants. If there is a detection issue, it's generally a configuration thing. From: justino garcia [mailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Biernes, Nobyembre 19, 2010 4:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Su

RE: Vipre and deployment

2010-10-29 Thread Alex Eckelberry
http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/Agent-Uninstallers/ From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org] Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 12:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vipre and deployment We still use Symantec on all our workstations. Would love to move over to Vipre. We ha

RE: "System Defragmenter" malware

2010-10-29 Thread Alex Eckelberry
It is highly polymorphic and quite nasty. If you find it and VIPRE doesn't detect it, please let us know asap. Alex -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 12:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: "System Defragm

RE: [maybe spam] AV (again)

2010-10-28 Thread Alex Eckelberry
Dear Lord. A Sunbelt/GFI salesperson who won't contact you? That's something I need to look into. Alex From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 11:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [maybe spam] AV (ag

RE: ESET vs VIPRE

2010-10-19 Thread Alex Eckelberry
marti...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 3:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESET vs VIPRE While we're having this Sunbelt Q&A: Alex, when is the Ninja Blade replacement expected to be released? - Sean On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Alex Eckelberry mailto:al...@s

RE: ESET vs VIPRE

2010-10-19 Thread Alex Eckelberry
pport weren't even answered - is the supp...@sunbelt address not valid anymore, and what is the correct addy? Thanks! From: Alex Eckelberry [mailto:al...@sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 10:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ESET vs VIPRE We have been doing pri

RE: ESET vs VIPRE

2010-10-19 Thread Alex Eckelberry
All good feedback... I sent this along to the devs. From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 2:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ESET vs VIPRE YUP > A few machines had issues with the recent agent upgrade. I had to manuall

RE: ESET vs VIPRE

2010-10-19 Thread Alex Eckelberry
We have been doing private tests with AV-Comparatives for some time now. They have a bit of an odd setup (understatement) and it does take some work. I do hope to have a public test in the coming months. They also have a rather odd testing schedule. Alex From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:

RE: z-bot scanner?

2010-09-30 Thread Alex Eckelberry
http://live.sunbeltsoftware.com/ Scans for Zbot and anything else. (Yes, it is a bit large but we're working on that.) From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 5:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: z-bot scanner? Perhaps: http://www.emco.is/prod

RE: Remote Control PC Software

2010-09-28 Thread Alex Eckelberry
+1 for Teamviewer From: Pete Howard [mailto:pchow...@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 10:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Remote Control PC Software TeamViewer is one of the few viewers that actually work with 3d games remotely. Saw some demos of Teradacis PCoIP and Ci

RE: Spam appliances/services

2010-09-24 Thread Alex Eckelberry
We need to fix that page... we're actually not shipping that product. We are coming out with an appliance in December. From: Jeff Steward [mailto:jstew...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 10:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Spam appliances/services In fairness to the l

RE: Spam appliances/services

2010-09-24 Thread Alex Eckelberry
http://www.gfi.com/hosted-email-security Excellent continuity feature in this product - truly remarkable. Antispam and Antivirus are also quite good. Alex From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 10:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Spam appliances/

RE: Web Monitoring Appliance or service

2010-09-24 Thread Alex Eckelberry
I'm duty bound to mention this... http://www.gfi.com/internet-monitoring-software Alex Alex Eckelberry General Manager, Security GFI Software, Inc. 33 N. Garden Avenue, Clearwater, FL 33755 p: 919-297-1347 f: 727-562-5199 e: al...@gfi.com<mailto:al...@gfi.com> MSN: alex...@

RE: clearcloud

2010-09-17 Thread Alex Eckelberry
We'll check into all this. Thanks for the feedback. From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 1:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: clearcloud You could try setting up forwarders to your previous public DNS servers for the RBLs in question. I

RE: #*&$&% "Security Tools" Malware

2010-09-16 Thread Alex Eckelberry
earcloud DNS on my Netgear router and again it blocked printing to my wireless printers. Reversed those DNS settings, and I could print again. What's going on? Murray ____ From: Alex Eckelberry [mailto:al...@sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Thursday, September 16, 20

RE: #*&$&% "Security Tools" Malware

2010-09-16 Thread Alex Eckelberry
fit to Sunbelt/GFI customers who are already using OpenDNS. ASB (My XeeSM Profile)<http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker> Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Alex Eckelberry mailto:al...@sunbelt-software.com>> wrote: www.Clearclouddns.com<http:

RE: #*&$&% "Security Tools" Malware

2010-09-16 Thread Alex Eckelberry
; Malware Btw, we update the malware URLs of these rogues right into ClearCloud. Feel free to and the ClearCloud DNS server as a replacement to your existing DNS: http://clearclouddns.com/ It's still beta, but I think you'll find it works quite well. And it's free. Alex From:

RE: #*&$&% "Security Tools" Malware

2010-09-16 Thread Alex Eckelberry
I have asked and they said they would put that up. -Original Message- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 1:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: #*&$&% "Security Tools" Malware On 15 Sep 2010 at 14:4

RE: #*&$&% "Security Tools" Malware

2010-09-15 Thread Alex Eckelberry
ntact Malwarebytes via their corporate pricing link and twice have got nothing back... Dave -Original Message- From: Alex Eckelberry [mailto:al...@sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 11:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: #*&$&% "Securi

RE: #*&$&% "Security Tools" Malware

2010-09-15 Thread Alex Eckelberry
ues Subject: Re: #*&$&% "Security Tools" Malware On 15 Sep 2010 at 12:55, Alex Eckelberry wrote: > > http://vipre.malwarebytes.org/ > > Free. And the combination really works. Just remember, only the VIPRE part of that page is free. On that page, quite pr

RE: #*&$&% "Security Tools" Malware

2010-09-15 Thread Alex Eckelberry
servers. Use your ISP's or ClearCloud as forwarders. On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:48 PM, John Aldrich mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com>> wrote: Cool... Can I add that as an alternative to my ISP's DNS in my Active Directory, or should I just push that out through DHCP? From: Alex

RE: #*&$&% "Security Tools" Malware

2010-09-15 Thread Alex Eckelberry
September 2010 18:49 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: #*&$&% "Security Tools" Malware Cool... Can I add that as an alternative to my ISP's DNS in my Active Directory, or should I just push that out through DHCP? From: Alex Eckelberry [mailto:al...@sunbelt-software.

RE: #*&$&% "Security Tools" Malware

2010-09-15 Thread Alex Eckelberry
Roger Wright ___ When it's GOOD there ain't nothin' like it, and when it's BAD there ain't nothin' like it! On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Alex Eckelberry mailto:al...@sunbelt-software.com>> wrote: www.Clearclouddns.com<http://www.Clearclouddns.c

RE: #*&$&% "Security Tools" Malware

2010-09-15 Thread Alex Eckelberry
www.Clearclouddns.com From: Jeff Frantz [mailto:jfra...@itstechnologies.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 1:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: #*&$&% "Security Tools" Malware John, I have not tried it yet but Trend Micro has a free browser add-on which is supposed protect t

RE: #*&$&% "Security Tools" Malware

2010-09-15 Thread Alex Eckelberry
Btw, we update the malware URLs of these rogues right into ClearCloud. Feel free to and the ClearCloud DNS server as a replacement to your existing DNS: http://clearclouddns.com/ It's still beta, but I think you'll find it works quite well. And it's free. Alex From:

RE: #*&$&% "Security Tools" Malware

2010-09-15 Thread Alex Eckelberry
http://vipre.malwarebytes.org/ Free. And the combination really works. From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 12:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: #*&$&% "Security Tools" Malware The "Security Tools" malware is about to drive

RE: iPad / LogMeIn

2010-09-10 Thread Alex Eckelberry
Fwiw, look at TeamViewer for the iPad... From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 5:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: iPad / LogMeIn Anyone here using LogMeIn from an iPad? I've been resisting trendy tech (smartphones and Apple anything) for a long t

RE: The 2010 Anti-Virus league (Vipre not included) why, and is this test any good?

2010-08-20 Thread Alex Eckelberry
I have contacted AV Test to find out why we weren't on the test. It turns out we need to pay for testing for their monthly test (we are paying for a subset of that). We should now be in the next test. This whole testing thing... don't get me going. It has been incredibly frustrating. But if

RE: Sophos vs. Vipre Enterprise (now that we have tested both)

2010-08-20 Thread Alex Eckelberry
ow that we have tested both) BS'D Comments below... From: Alex Eckelberry [mailto:al...@sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 6:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Cc: Jason Chronowitz Subject: RE: Sophos vs. Vipre Enterprise (now that we have tested both) Jeff -- thanks for this.

RE: Intel to buy McAfee for $7.68 billion

2010-08-20 Thread Alex Eckelberry
As you can see, I stayed away from making any comments... but I did make some comments to PC Mag here: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2368056,00.asp More likely is the fact that the MBAs drove a good part of this decision: http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/19/technology/intel_mcafee_deal/ "Va

RE: Sophos vs. Vipre Enterprise (now that we have tested both)

2010-08-14 Thread Alex Eckelberry
t, based on the driver model (there are some exceptions to this, but it's a long technical discussion). Once again, thanks for the frank evaluation, and I can assure you this email has plenty of readers inside the organization. Alex Alex Eckelberry, CEO Sunbelt Software 33 N. Garden Avenue, Cl

RE: Vipre false positives?

2010-07-30 Thread Alex Eckelberry
This is actually a really good idea. From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:an...@geoapps.com] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 9:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Cc: Alex Eckelberry Subject: Re: Vipre false positives? On 26 Jul 2010 at 9:08, Jeff Cain wrote: > These should have been addressed

RE: Vipre effectiveness & false positives

2010-07-29 Thread Alex Eckelberry
data with anyone off-list, just ping me directly. Alex Eckelberry CEO, Sunbelt Software Part of GFI Software Family From: Ralph Smith [mailto:m...@gatewayindustries.org] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 2:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vipre effectiveness & false positives I&#x

RE: Vipre false positives?

2010-07-26 Thread Alex Eckelberry
Fwiw, there is a very serious zero day .lnk exploit going around. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9179339/Windows_shortcut_attack_code_goes_public Apparently our heuristics were a little too aggressive... Alex From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueri

RE: Letter from Sunbelt CEO: GFI Acquires Sunbelt Software - Domain does not exist

2010-07-14 Thread Alex Eckelberry
ts that will >> continue to propel our products and our teams to the highest level of >> achievement possible. >> >> For the time being, both companies are hard at work, integrating the > various >> sales, marketing, finance, and technology teams. Our goal is to m

RE: Australian Internet Filtering Position

2010-07-08 Thread Alex Eckelberry
This is why I highly recommend hidemyass.com For a small monthly fee, you can do pretty much whatever the hell you want. For example, friends of mine in the UK use it to watch US TV shows on Hulu (which blocks overseas IPs). Technology will always beat idiocy like this... Alex From: Andrew

RE: Antivirus Product comparisons, Vipre not included ?

2010-06-28 Thread Alex Eckelberry
Yeah, we'll find out what's going on here and get into the next report. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 9:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Antivirus Product comparisons, Vipre not included ? Someone will have to suggest to NSS that they in

RE: Patch Management - again

2010-06-11 Thread Alex Eckelberry
> WSUS. What do you do about non-Windows patching? Alex -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 11:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Patch Management - again On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Joseph Heaton wrote: >

RE: vipre perium defualt ad blocked by vipre changed

2010-06-06 Thread Alex Eckelberry
Yes. The HTML pages are in the VIPRE install directory. BlockedAdPage.htm And BlockedWebPage.htm -Original Message- From: justino garcia [mailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2010 1:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: vipre perium defualt ad blocked by vip

RE: What the heck?

2010-06-01 Thread Alex Eckelberry
un 1, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Alex Eckelberry mailto:al...@sunbelt-software.com>> wrote: The exe below is malware (I suppose everyone figured that out). From: David McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com<mailto:dav...@imcu.com>] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 1:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: What the heck?

2010-06-01 Thread Alex Eckelberry
The exe below is malware (I suppose everyone figured that out). From: David McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 1:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: What the heck? Ok so my users are getting this right now. I have blocked the ip with Ironport and sent the ema

RE: laptop encryption

2010-05-27 Thread Alex Eckelberry
Not the answer you're looking for, but what about a different thought? Don't keep anything of value on a laptop. Only run laptops client/server (VPN or TS or whatever). Alex From: Jeff Brown [mailto:2jbr...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 10:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: Holy PAC-MAN Batman!

2010-05-21 Thread Alex Eckelberry
http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/virus-is-attacking-my-computer.html From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 11:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Holy PAC-MAN Batman! Is anyone else getting a playable PAC-MAN on the Google home page? ~ Fina

RE: Friday "Meet the developers" at Sunbelt

2010-05-20 Thread Alex Eckelberry
Next time… this is a “first-pass”. But I really like that idea of streaming ☺ From: Daniel Rodriguez [mailto:drod...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 12:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Friday "Meet the developers" at Sunbelt Would be nice if this was streamed or on Webex..

RE: Symantec looking to nab Verisign

2010-05-19 Thread Alex Eckelberry
Winner From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 4:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec looking to nab Verisign If that happened, for once Symantec would run like a well oiled machine. Webster From: Phillip Par

RE: Friday "Meet the developers" at Sunbelt

2010-05-19 Thread Alex Eckelberry
2010 at 4:40 PM, Kurt Buff mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com>> wrote: Who's paying the airfare? On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 14:36, Alex Eckelberry mailto:al...@sunbelt-software.com>> wrote: > Hat tip for Greg Sweers for organizing this, we are inviting a small > group of admins to come

RE: Friday "Meet the developers" at Sunbelt

2010-05-18 Thread Alex Eckelberry
artnership for Strong Families ____ From: Alex Eckelberry To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Tue May 18 17:36:36 2010 Subject: Friday "Meet the developers" at Sunbelt Hat tip for Greg Sweers for organizing this, we are inviting a small group of admins to come to

Friday "Meet the developers" at Sunbelt

2010-05-18 Thread Alex Eckelberry
Hat tip for Greg Sweers for organizing this, we are inviting a small group of admins to come to the Sunbelt offices in Clearwater, Florida to meet all Friday afternoon with the VIPRE Enterprise development team. The purpose will be to provide feedback and direction to our development team in ma

RE: Bootable Vipre Rescue

2010-05-17 Thread Alex Eckelberry
Ok, we get it... ;-) -Original Message- From: Peter van Houten [mailto:peter...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 5:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Bootable Vipre Rescue In preparation for my possible meeting with Pan Virut (Virut Pan anyone?) tomorrow, I prepared a boo

RE: Possible false-positive for Vipre

2010-05-17 Thread Alex Eckelberry
Vipre Thanks. I wasn't sure (since it's showing up in some places on VirusTotal) if it's a real Trojan or a false positive. :) [cid:image001.jpg@01CAF5C9.98B52380][cid:image002@01caf5c9.98b52380] From: Alex Eckelberry [mailto:al...@sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Monday, May 17,

RE: Possible false-positive for Vipre

2010-05-17 Thread Alex Eckelberry
This is fixed. I'll make sure the forum gets updated. From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 10:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Possible false-positive for Vipre Already posted in the "Enterprise False Positives" forum here: http://sup

RE: Bootable Vipre Rescue

2010-05-17 Thread Alex Eckelberry
Or try rebooting into Safe Mode with Command Prompt and run VIPRE Rescue off the USB. The newer infections often are impossible to boot in normal Safe Mode, but with Command Prompt it's sometimes doable. Alex From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Monday, May

RE: How does one test the Vipre premium enterprise firewall and web filter? Safe way.

2010-05-12 Thread Alex Eckelberry
(answered off-list) From: justino garcia [mailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 7:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: How does one test the Vipre premium enterprise firewall and web filter? Safe way. How does one test the vipre permium enteprise firewall and web flit

RE: Life just keeps getting better....

2010-05-11 Thread Alex Eckelberry
>But Mr. Zoits is right, AV is pointless. It is a signature race and >you wll lose that race sooner or later no question about it. Behaviour >based HIPS is the only thing that will win this fight. CSA's was the >best there ever was at doing this. Virtually bullet proof if >implemented correctly, bu

RE: sunbelt IRC channel/Server

2010-05-11 Thread Alex Eckelberry
We don't use IRC alas. From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 6:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: sunbelt IRC channel/Server IRC? I feel like I just stepped out of a time machine and back into the 20th century! ;-) John Hornbuc

RE: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network.

2010-05-11 Thread Alex Eckelberry
Fwiw, we are implementing such a system (basically, by creating an additional layer between the engine and the detection, so if a detection starts to spin, it will get stopped). We have been testing it and the results look quite promising (it will take some time to get into the engine, though,

RE: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network.

2010-05-10 Thread Alex Eckelberry
It's not a bad idea and we'll look into it. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 5:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network. On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:4

RE: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network.

2010-05-10 Thread Alex Eckelberry
y 9, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Ben Scott mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Alex Eckelberry mailto:al...@sunbelt-software.com>> wrote: > And yes, we do test each definition that go out. The problem with this one > was > that the loop condition kicks in on a f

RE: Sunbelt, McAfee, Symantec - now Clam

2010-05-07 Thread Alex Eckelberry
#x27;s X.509 code-signing certificate Alex Eckelberry wrote: > Not sure about that. What happens when the whitelisting vendor screws > up a dat file, and you can't run any of your programs at all because > they are not "allowed"? The problem is compounded by the fact that > the

RE: Sunbelt, McAfee, Symantec - now Clam

2010-05-07 Thread Alex Eckelberry
Not sure about that. What happens when the whitelisting vendor screws up a dat file, and you can't run any of your programs at all because they are not "allowed"? The problem is compounded by the fact that there are far more legitimate files released daily than there are malicious files, so wh

RE: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network.

2010-05-07 Thread Alex Eckelberry
All AV vendors have problems. Just Google "(vendor) false positive" or "(vendor) update problem". It's just reality. When you have to build up to 20 new versions of your product daily, things go wrong. The problems with AV updates industry-wide started with the massive increase in malware abo

RE: Virpe does NOT reboot client machines

2010-05-07 Thread Alex Eckelberry
That option is designed for remotely restarting a system post an upgrade/update to the product. That's an explanation. As to why it's not doing it, I'm curious, can you try a remote shutdown command and see if that does it? It is perhaps a credentialing issue. From: John Aldrich [mailto:ja

RE: [OT] RE: Sunbelt forums down?

2010-05-07 Thread Alex Eckelberry
es Subject: RE: Sunbelt forums down? That wasn't nice, brother. Shook From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 2:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sunbelt forums down? Nah, it was just running a scan with definition versions 6272,

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