-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, March 05, 2003 at 11:53:49GMT -0800 (which was 2:53 PM where I live) Melissa Reese wrote and made these points on the subject of "Antivirus": MR> On Wednesday, March 05, 2003, at 11:23:59 AM PST, David Calvarese MR> wrote:
MR> Daily updates only really help if new definitions are actually MR> included in those updates. New viruses are introduced often, but if a MR> an a-v company produces "updates" every day just to satisfy a "we MR> update daily" promise, I do sometimes wonder just what is in those MR> little daily updates. That said, I had Panda Platinum for a year, and MR> it seemed competent...though a bit heavier on my system than NOD32 MR> (most others are heavier than NOD32). Panda does give you a summary of the new virus defs add and the total number of viruses now covered at the end of each update, if you don't turn off the notification. >> I'm using the free AVG at the moment, but it doesn't seem to update >> the virus definitions very often, which is a bad thing. MR> See comments above (though I do feel that AVG has its problems, and I MR> generally don't recommend it). It just feels wrong to me for some reason... A gut reaction. >> First time I ran Panda on my PC at work, it picked up a whopping 210 >> infections that NAV didn't. MR> I sure hope those were just unexecuted "infected files", and not 210 MR> actual infections running amok through your machine! :-) 210 Actual infected files, spanning 15 viruses. Stupid NAV and stupid sister company that was sending the viruses to us. >> What about Kaspersky? MR> KAV is very good. I used it during its 3.x series, but found that 4.x MR> (at least when it was first released) slowed down my computer even MR> more than 3.x (which already slowed my system much more than NOD32). MR> After trying and/or using many, I'm most happy with NOD32. Wish they had a free version. I suppose I'll just have to give it a try. - -- Best regards, David mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." (Abraham Lincoln) Using The Bat! v1.62i on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1-nr1 (Windows XP) iD8DBQE+Zl888BowLud/+3gRAh2cAJ92wgpuNnNim2VuzdbbjiBnbZbubgCfaaWr R9xNk15qIhmUUp0VBAmStY0= =7TKt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
