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On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 16:25:14 -0500, you wrote:
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>I'm not an expert but here are my ideas on picking software for virus
>protection.
Me neither.....
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>Go with the company that gets the earliest and most viruses to build a
>fix for. Someone has to submit the virus for them to build a fix. I
>would go with the guys that have the largest client base. Sooner they
>see one the faster they can fix it and publish the virus definition
>for us to use.
Sounds reasoneble, but somehow they all release the fix at almost the same time.
Just like newspapers all have the same news.
Maybe they have some sort of network to spread the info?
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>Go with someone that makes money at it. They can afford to hire
>people when the market gets really busy. Like now.
True. (unless they need to meet another deadline)
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>Go with a company that is well rated by independent sources. What
>else can you do?
Goto a random site and they always have 5 star reviews from somewhere :)
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>Go with one that most people don't have problems with. Qualify the
>people that have problems with say Norton or McAfee etc. Some people
>cause their own problems. I've been guilty. Recently.
Norton and McAfee are bloatware. Norton sux at deinstalling.
Norton does a bad job in worm detection/removal when I last used it.
Beware of PR departments they twist everything into a positive point.
Like Microsoft saying they stopped the attacks on their sites by the most recent worm.
They didn't..... If fact they didnt even stand a change against the worm and they knew it.
That's why they put their servers on Linux.
Sounds a lot diffrent from "MS stopped hackers"
Maybe a bit off topic but Norton advertising everywhere doesnt mean quality by definition.
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>Go with someone that has virus updates everyday. You have to download
>them from Norton but it is pretty easy. I don't always wait for the
>weekly automatic live update. Don't know about the other companies.
I think almost all other do auto updates also. Some even hourly.
But that doesn't mean a thing.
If I receive a fix for a year old virus today I can't say thats that very good.
Not that any of them is so bad but I think you get what I mean
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>I've run Norton on several computers and the problems I've had were
>all traceable back to me.
I don't know what problems you had but you bought the program to take care of problems.
So it should at least try to enforce good security policies.
Not all users are experts and need to be guided.
Not saying you fit into that catgory
-=Tony=-
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