[at-l] Virus software OT

[daveh@psknet.com (Dave Hicks)]

My ISP runs McAfee and I run Norton Internet Security (Norton Antivirus and
Norton Firewall).

In Norton Internet Security I have Automatic LiveUpdate turned on to ensure
that Norton AntiVirus has the latest virus definitions.

The combination seems to be working for me.

Chainsaw

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----- Original Message -----
From: "J Bryan Kramer" <jbryankramer@msn.com>
To: "Charles P. Copeland" <charles@uswnet.com>; "at-l"
<AT-L@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 10:32 PM
Subject: RE: [at-l] Virus software OT


I use Norton Internet Security 2002, it has the Norton Antivirus and Norton
Firewall, you really need both. The AV stops the viruses but the Firewall
stops the trojans and other attacks plus it blocks most of those annoying
adverts and it also blocks spyware. I get at least 4 trojan attacks per
week. A trojan for those not attuned to the jargon lets someone take contro=
l
of your computer, read, delete all files and generally do anything they wan=
t
to do with it. There are people out there who continually scan all IP
addresses to see if they can find vulnerable addresses. Once they have
control of your system, and you won't notice unless you have a firewall,
they can do illegal things with it.

As for updates, you can set it to update automatically or you can just log
in once a week to manually update. Contrary to other reports Norton only
normally does updates once a week unless they spot something that calls for
an early update. I seem to get the automatic updates on Monday and I think
the manual files are available on Wednesday but they may have switched to
Monday for that too. Norton generally comes out on top for the magazine
comparisions for home av/firewall software.

There are other good packages but you need both an AV and a Firewall.

Bryan

"Si vis pacem para bellum"

> All my systems use Norton Systemworks and part of that is their antivirus
> software.  You get a year of free updates when you buy the package and th=
e
> copy on my system automatically updates daily.  It catches at least one o=
r
> two Klez virii in my email per day!
>
> Charles
>
> > Can anyone recommend a very good virus detection software that has good
> > and frequent updates.  I am about fed up with McAfee and as I recall
> > when I used Norton's I never received an update.
>


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