Re: eScan / kaspersky antivirus info ?

On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:44:22 +0200, "Thierry" <-> wrote:

>Hi,
>Following Art's sugegstion I ran eScan from Micro World
>http://www.claymania.com/KASFX.EXE
>
>Contrary to products from Microsoft, Bitdefender and PCTools, it immediately
>found the infected file during the attack and either deleted or renamed them
>with a .mwt extension. easy to delete.
>
>Question. I don't really see updates (they seem to be done at the time of
>the scan neither manual or a real menuing).

That's the way I arranged it. When you run the SFX it first updates
before it starts the scanner. I arranged it as a emergency scanner.
It uses a older version of the freeware version of Escan that has
a clean/rename capability.

>Where can I find more
>information about this product (but I found its price, about 50 euros)
>For example, it opens forst an ftp connexion, probably to download its
>latest signatures. But it never closed. Can I once there is no more activity
>in this Wget ftp window ?

That's stuff I added. It uses wget to download updates via FTP.

>For example on http://www.claymania.com/nav-map.html I don't really see
>information about performances of kaspersky vs others. It seem to handle
>more than 151000 signatures where others have only 30000, etc. Where to find
>more information (excepted on this fotum, but it is not easy for such info)

Don't go by that. Go by the results of independent test agencies that
do comparative testing. Browse the claymania site and you'll find some
listed, as well as other information.

Art

http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
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