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Sobig.F Prevention And Cure
Talkback Avoid Norton AV, McAfee, and F-Protect. F-protect let in and refused to recognise the w32 virus allowing me to spread it to friends and family and McAfee let in another trojan (can't remember the name).
[August 27, 2003, 13:50]
Firefox's New Year Resolution: Keep Growing
Talkback I went to http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm and I was able to download the test files without any warnings from my McAfee Virus Scan AV software. McAfee said that their AV products only work with MSIE.
[December 28, 2004, 4:01]
Why You Should Ditch Norton AntiVirus
Talkback McaFee antivirus 9.0 REQUIRES Active-X (and active scripting and more) to be enabled --- the very stuff we are all warned against enabling.be the AV people themselves! Furthermore; because you can't tell where McAfee actually fetches the updates...
[February 7, 2005, 15:03]
Microsoft AntiSpyware: Is It Worth Bothering With?
Talkback Not sure how it got past AV, I think I may have turned On Access Scan off for a couple of hours while trying to find why McAfee hogs CPU. Whether my fault for disabling AV for a short while or not, only the MS tool found this hideous system invader.
[January 27, 2005, 8:25]
Symantec Blames VeriSign For Norton AV Woes
News I shall now try McAfee. I am now strongly tempted to trash Norton AV in favour of something more user-friendly and which doesn't slow down the opening of every damned thing in sight! Security-software firm Symantec on Friday blamed VeriSign for...
[January 9, 2004, 15:20]
MyDoom Seeks To Destroy Antivirus Firms
News Worm writers have threatened to attack antivirus companies F-Secure, Symantec, Trend Micro and McAfee. Also we will attack f-secure,symantec,trendmicro,mcafee , etc. Lucky's Av's ;P~. In the latest version of MyDoom - MyDoom.AE - the authors...
[October 18, 2004, 13:05]
Microsoft Turns Up Heat On Security Rivals
News It will take several more months until Microsoft's products can be directly compared with those offered by Symantec, McAfee and Trend Micro. Microsoft is taking on incumbents such as Symantec, McAfee and Trend Micro, the world's top three antivirus...
[April 27, 2007, 10:25]
Microsoft's Security Strategy Pilloried
News This move will challenge antivirus vendors that depend heavily on revenue from consumers, such as Symantec, and vendors that derive substantial revenue from up-selling enterprises to antivirus product suites that include desktops and servers, such...
[February 18, 2005, 7:45]
Why You Should Ditch Norton AntiVirus
Talkback It was not possible to install McAfee, Panda, AVG and a range of other AV products. This prevented the AV software from running and difficult to uninstall. It also prevented access to most AV websites and affected the abiity to use File Find...
[November 12, 2004, 18:34]
Norton AntiVirus: The Readers Strike Back
Talkback I used Mcafee in the past and after this I would not return to it. I would not use any other AV software. I currently use NAV 2003 and I have read in several reviews that apart from a few tweaks there is little difference between 2003 & 2004.
[March 17, 2004, 18:07]
Reduce OS X Security Threats - Ignore Security Software
Talkback Quite how these companies such as McAfee, can claim to block virii that don't exist, I'm not sure. I'm a sysadmin, and I do deploy an AV solution on my Macs. Even if it did have to install AV for protection, I'll go with Open every time.
[May 8, 2006, 11:08]
Fighting The Battle Against Zero-Day Virus Threats
White Papers The independent testing laboratory AV-test.org found response times ranging from just under seven hours to almost 30 hours, with the four leading vendors (Sophos, McAfee, Symantec, and Trend Micro) clocking in at no fewer than 12 hours.
[August 8, 2008, 1:19]
Why You Should Ditch Norton AntiVirus
Talkback Also, it detects virues the big guys like Norton and Mcafee can't. It doen't seem to be as popular as other av software though. I recommend Solo Antivirus, especially if you're on dialup or have an older pc.
[April 2, 2006, 12:16]
Why You Should Ditch Norton AntiVirus
Talkback McaFee antivirus 9.0 REQUIRES Active-X (and active scripting and more) to be enabled --- the very stuff we are all warned against enabling.be the AV people themselves! For Mcafee to tell you to turn off all the IE security features is ridiculous.
[October 25, 2005, 12:09]
A Good Forget-it-and-leave-it AV Solution
Member Review I am an IT Manager and I have bought Norton, McAfee, Inoculan and others, but this software is simply does what you need. You can set it to update every 3 hours and the developer Trend Micro will issue AV signatures quite often to keep you...
[January 15, 2004, 10:32]
Symantec Slams The Door On Live Update Flaw
Talkback Norton/Symantec had me thinking this McAfee thing was real and I returned 3 computers and on the 4th I had it sent clean of any other AV program or firewall. Originally, I was told my Norton/Symantec tech support that this was caused by the fact...
[April 23, 2005, 1:04]
IM Viruses Finally Come Of Age
Talkback It took me nearly four days to reestablish some kind of functionality on my PC Not to forget to mention that automatic updates from Windows XP and McAfee virus and Firewall plus where on. I have collected information about "Bropia" and found...
[April 5, 2005, 14:04]
Antivirus Firms Battle 'unique Malware'
News People like Symantec or McAfee will not produce a signature for that — why would they produce it for just that one company? Rob Forsyth, Asia-Pacific managing director of AV firm Sophos, claimed that the company's "genotype" technology is able to...
[November 24, 2006, 7:13]
Antivirus Software Plugs Wormholes
News As far as antivirus administrators are concerned, said Candace Worley, product manager for Network Associates' McAfee Security group, their job is on the line if there's a virus infection. We kept getting asked by the AV administrators, 'How do I...
[April 2, 2002, 15:03]
Symantec Blames VeriSign For Norton AV Woes
Talkback I think I will try McAfee as well. While I understand that Symantec and Verisign are looking into the solution and have offered a new certificate, which I have downloaded and installed, it does not solve the problem.
[January 12, 2004, 15:31]
