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Message-ID: <005b01c41017$d1980670$dd03973f@LUFKIN.DPSOL.COM>
From: purdy at tecman.com (Curt Purdy)
Subject: [inbox] What Antivirus Should I Get
Nancy Kramer wrote:
> I would like list members to suggest what anti virus software
> I should
> get.
I have been fighting virii for 15 years, longer than either Norton or McAfee
have been. Back then, they were mostly passed by sneakernet. Over the
years, I have found multiple instances when fully updated versions of both
Norton and McAfee either could not find or could not remove a virus. I have
not found one time that F-Prot, now F-Secure could not find and remove all
virii.
They were the first anti-virus company in the world, and IMHO still the
best. On the technical side, one of their engines (they have 3) operates at
the very lowest level of I/O, immediately scanning a file as it comes off
the disk, before it enters memory or interacts with OS. This makes it very
fast and very efficient.
Curt Purdy CISSP, GSEC, MCSE+I, CNE, CCDA
Information Security Engineer
DP Solutions
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If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked.
What's more, you deserve to be hacked.
-- White House cybersecurity adviser Richard Clarke
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