Re: best current anti virus software?

Did you try to Symantec NIS 2005 and 2006?
I think you are only familiar with the earlier version.
BTW, I think its not right to generalize that Symantec is crappy as my
experience with this AV software is contrary to what most people claims
here...

Anyway
Nothing is perfect among these products...
In the past I have used McAffee, and Norman and from my experience were
inferior if compared with the Symantec versions...
BTW I think it was Noel Paton who mentioned the corporate edition
Not that silly guy Shane...

I waa wondering if a trojan that have escaped his vigilant anti malware
crusade have instead corrupted the file system of his brain..<g>

Regarding alternative AV unless I had a bad experience with Symantec I
will not change;;

If ain't broken... why fix it?

* * Chas wrote:
"Roy" <roybasan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Noel Paton wrote
(Check the name of the tested AV, if it's Norton it *may* be
the Retail version, if it's Symantec, then it's *probably* the
Corporate
edition).

Its Symantec.....its corporate I presume as I did not buy it but my
employer did BTW it never caused any problem with other users I
know...

Shane wrote..
But, if one study shows Norton doing better on FPing than rival AV,
that's
just one study and a person would be a fool to base a decision on
that.

Shane I think you are a PARANOID person...its time to consult a
psychiatrist !


Shane is pretty right on about the corporate version of NAV and there's
no need for personal attacks because someone has a different opinion.

Symantec Corporate Edition is a much leaner application than the home
user version of NAV. Just because you haven't experienced problems with
NAV at your place of employment doesn't mean that it's the same for
everyone else.

Over the past 5 years I've been affiliated with 2 different companies
who use Symantec Corporate Edition. One, a small company with about
10-12 users frequently Emailed me Excel files infected with macro
viruses plus about 3-4 times a year their whole system got hosed with
the latest virus that was going around at the time. The viruses were the
mostly the result of users opening attachments in OE but NAV didn't
catch the problems in time to avoid problems.

My current company has over 100 users and runs a combination of a
Windows network running off of a Unix server. Periodically the Windows
based software has been attacked by viruses causing much havoc. We're
going from AIX Unix to Windows Server 2003 and our IT guy installed
Symantec 10.0 on the new server. All of the other PCs were running 9.0.
The update knocked all of the other PCs of the LAN and he had to go back
to 9.0!

So much for Symantec's great testing!

I use Act!, WinFax Pro, Norton Utilities and Ghost plus I've used just
about every version of NAV from 2.0 to 2002. Most of the modern threats
and malware attacks that I've run into have come while using NAV as my
full time scanner - about 6 issues over a 3 year period. Other programs
probably would have protected me more effectively.

There are far better programs to protect your system than NAV or McAfee
for that matter.

Chas.

* * Chas wrote:
"Roy" <roybasan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1150662835.316294.69130@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Noel Paton wrote
(Check the name of the tested AV, if it's Norton it *may* be
the Retail version, if it's Symantec, then it's *probably* the
Corporate
edition).

Its Symantec.....its corporate I presume as I did not buy it but my
employer did BTW it never caused any problem with other users I
know...

Shane wrote..
But, if one study shows Norton doing better on FPing than rival AV,
that's
just one study and a person would be a fool to base a decision on
that.

Shane I think you are a PARANOID person...its time to consult a
psychiatrist !


Shane is pretty right on about the corporate version of NAV and there's
no need for personal attacks because someone has a different opinion.

Symantec Corporate Edition is a much leaner application than the home
user version of NAV. Just because you haven't experienced problems with
NAV at your place of employment doesn't mean that it's the same for
everyone else.

Over the past 5 years I've been affiliated with 2 different companies
who use Symantec Corporate Edition. One, a small company with about
10-12 users frequently Emailed me Excel files infected with macro
viruses plus about 3-4 times a year their whole system got hosed with
the latest virus that was going around at the time. The viruses were the
mostly the result of users opening attachments in OE but NAV didn't
catch the problems in time to avoid problems.

My current company has over 100 users and runs a combination of a
Windows network running off of a Unix server. Periodically the Windows
based software has been attacked by viruses causing much havoc. We're
going from AIX Unix to Windows Server 2003 and our IT guy installed
Symantec 10.0 on the new server. All of the other PCs were running 9.0.
The update knocked all of the other PCs of the LAN and he had to go back
to 9.0!

So much for Symantec's great testing!

I use Act!, WinFax Pro, Norton Utilities and Ghost plus I've used just
about every version of NAV from 2.0 to 2002. Most of the modern threats
and malware attacks that I've run into have come while using NAV as my
full time scanner - about 6 issues over a 3 year period. Other programs
probably would have protected me more effectively.

There are far better programs to protect your system than NAV or McAfee
for that matter.

Chas.

.

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