(Msg. 17) Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 12:10 am
Post subject: Re: Avoid free antivirus products? [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: alt>comp>anti-virus, others (more info?)
From: "RH710" <rhall710 RemoveThis @mail.com>
| David is right about Antivir and use his Mult_av for deep scans in dos.It is
| a great program and gives you the choice of several vendors.Ask David about
| that.Later RH710
|
Well lets put that in perspective...
The McAfee and Sophos command line scanners come in two flavours; a DOS Scanner and a Win32
console scanner. The Win32 versions may look like a DOS command but they are full Win32
compliant utilities. If you use a utility such as Dependecy Checker you will see they load
Win32 DLLs.
The Trend Micro scanner is a Win32 GUI.
The Kaspersky scanner is ONLT a DOS scanner.
The DOS scanners will find and remove file but will NOT repair changes made to Win32
constructs like the Registry.
The DOS scanners have the capapility of being used outside the Win32 OS, such as after
booting from a DOS Disk, such that malware can be removed with out protection scames or
their respective file handles being held open by the OS.
(Msg. 19) Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:46 am
Post subject: Re: Avoid free antivirus products? [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
Stuart Krivis wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:02:00 -0700, Jim <skb RemoveThis @wfv.inv> wrote:
>
>>Nod32 only performs outbound email scanning with Outlook, it doesn't
>>scan Eudora mailbox files, and as a result its inbound scan didn't
>
>>in your way. And it offers rapid, reliable protection. If you use
>>Microsoft Outlook (not Outlook Express), or you don't run email on the
>>PC you want to protect, I unequivocally recommend Nod32. There's
>>nothing better for those environments. If you use Eudora, take a pass
>>on Nod32. Eset claims it's impossible to scan Eudora mailbox files.
>>That's bull - lots of other AV products do it.
>
> I fail to see the point of scanning outgoing e-mail.
>
> As for Eudora, it seems to cause a lot of problems for a lot of
> people. They really need to scrap it and start from scratch.
Stuart,
I hear you. Scanning outgoing email is pointless, if not outright
stupid. The only thing even close to being as ridiculous of a concept
is appending a message to the same email message indicating that the
sender is clueless enough to do so.
If _I_ were a spammer, I would append every message that I sent with:
"This message has been scanned by NOD23,
and is certified as malware-free."
Note the 23 to keep the lawyers at bay.
I subscribed to Finnie's newsletter for 2 months, until I realized
that he had no clue about computer security. If you read his ramblings
about selecting an AV solution, at no time is efficacy at averting
malware mentioned. Scan outgoing email? WTF for?
(Msg. 20) Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:42 pm
Post subject: Re: Avoid free antivirus products? [Login to view extended thread Info.]
I have personally had tremendous problems with AVG free. On two seperate machnes runnng windows xp home it caused a freezing of the outlookexpress . The little icon for AVG would spin in the lower status bar forever and ever and no mail would be downloaded from any of my accounts. removing (unistalling) the AVG free would then open up te floodgates and let all the mail in . Upon reinstalling the system would jam outlook and/or utlookexpress again. I never did find out why (no error messages only n inactive outlook express) but I do know removing it solves the problem.
Is this a generalized AVG problem?
Pirooz
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