full-disclosure - [inbox] What Antivirus Should I Get

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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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