Grant McDorman wrote:
>CAI <http://www.cai.com> has a virus protection product that's free for
home
>use. I'd suggest using it in combination with ZoneAlarm. Mind you, I don't
>know how good CAI's product is relative to Symantec's (Norton).
I am responsible for corporate virus protection for my employer (roughly
900 PCs at 80 locations). We used McAfee for 2 years before switching to
the free CAI product, which is InoculateIT PE (IPE), available at:
http://antivirus.cai.com. After using IPE for a year, my conclusion is
that from a pure detection and removal POV, it is the equal of either
Symantec's (Norton AV) or NAI's (McAfee VS) products for client PC
protection. There are 2 positives for me: update size is about 600kb, so
the file easily fits on a floppy. This is important to us, because we have
some PCs (process control, etc.) that aren't networked but that
nevertheless need to be protected against infection. The size of the
updates for NAI's and Symantec's products would require distribution via CD
(which not all of those standalone PCs have). Also, IPE by default will do
an "on-demand" scan on startup. The default value is 100 files,
configurable. In other words, on boot #1, it scans files 1 through 100 in
the file table. On boot #2, files 101 through 200, etc. This is a
reasonable substitute for the once per month complete demand scan of local
drives that users are asked to do, but never seem to find the time for.
There is a small drawback in that IPE by design does not scan mapped
network drives This is not critical to me, because my belief is that
scanning a mapped drive from the client is a poor substitute for scanning
network drives from the server itself. YMMV.
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