Re: Is a single souced AV package a valid strategy
- From: "What's in a Name?" <maxpro4u@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 09 Aug 2005 03:10:02 GMT
"amabutho" <mikehopper@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:1123253983.168729.209340@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> My recent experiences with identifying a virus/worm/trojan on my
> system has led me to question the value of AV protection using
> software from a single source. I do not want to start a flame war
> over AV tools but have experienced an infection that challenged
> identification.
>
> A week ago a virus entered my XP system after downloading the July
> 30 MS XP updates. I run Symantec Norton AV (NAV) which is updated
> regularly using LiveUpdate. NAV identified the virus as a variant
> of "Netsky" and cleaned it up but the system still behaved as if
> it were infected. Things like TaskManager and the DOS window
> would open an immediately close. Running NAV in both Safe and
> Normal mode indicated nothing wrong.
>
> I then spent the next two days trying a variety of "free" virus
> checker packages in both Safe and Normal mode all to no avail.
> Then started looking for web based tools that might do the job.
> After checking out four I uncovered the web version of
> BitDefender which running in normal mode identified the culprit as
> the "mytob.GD" worm. From there it was a few hours of work to get
> the system back to operation. Thanks to some of the earlier
> messages on this group (David Lipman on July 6 2005).
>
> Now my question is: Is it sound practice to rely on one AV package
> that cannot be relied to identify each and every infection? [NAV
> as of today appears not to detect the "mytob.GD" worm].
>
> Is there any strategy to have some alternate package run on the
> system?
> I understand there could be a number of conflicts etc but has
> anyone
> used a scheduled web tool task to complement their loaded package?
> This episode cost me 20 hours of productivity and I value that at
> at least $1000, so any approach that saves me so much effort is
> worth paying for.
>
> mike
>
I am trying out using multiple scanners. I have eTrust(which is my
main one),AVG free and AntiVir free running with real-time scanning
turned on.Also BitDifender free,ClamWin for backup.
I always use Thunderbird for mail and Firefox as browser.
Plus Spybot with resident running,MSAS running with real-time
scanning,PestPatrol with active protection running and 2 script
blockers(script defender/script sentry)running.
So far just a minimum slow down in loading programs(I am using an
older P2 450mz/512mb win2000pro)
-max
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