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| Thread ID: 65369 | 2006-01-15 22:40:00 | Reason #764362 not to buy Symantec | Metla (12) | PC World Chat |
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| 421432 | 2006-01-15 22:40:00 | safer-networking.org | Metla (12) | ||
| 421433 | 2006-01-15 22:42:00 | There was an update to NAV about 2 weeks ago that broke their POP3 proxy virus scanner pass through. Took them almost a week to fix it, in the meantime our helpdesk were taking stacks of calls from people unable to get mail because of it. Symantec sucks. |
ninja (1671) | ||
| 421434 | 2006-01-15 23:03:00 | NOD32 pwns all. | Prescott (11) | ||
| 421435 | 2006-01-15 23:08:00 | NOD32 pwns all.NOD32 modifies the Winsock layer of Windows to insert it's POP3 proxy. In the event Nod screws out it will stop your machine getting any traffic in or out. Period. The fix isn't exactly obvious, or easy either. Nod32 sucks as hard as Symantec does. |
ninja (1671) | ||
| 421436 | 2006-01-15 23:13:00 | Maybe I should change my statement. Nod32 is a better virus scanner than NAV. | Prescott (11) | ||
| 421437 | 2006-01-16 00:09:00 | NOD32 modifies the Winsock layer of Windows to insert it's POP3 proxy. In the event Nod screws out it will stop your machine getting any traffic in or out. Period. The fix isn't exactly obvious, or easy either. Nod32 sucks as hard as Symantec does. What AV software do you use then? |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 421438 | 2006-01-16 00:20:00 | Mac OS X at home Ubuntu Linux at work. Back when I first was using Windoze, I was using one which is no longer produced. After a while I stopped using that and relied on common sense, it worked pretty damn well. |
ninja (1671) | ||
| 421439 | 2006-01-16 00:32:00 | NOD32 modifies the Winsock layer of Windows to insert it's POP3 proxy. In the event Nod screws out it will stop your machine getting any traffic in or out. Period. The fix isn't exactly obvious, or easy either. Nod32 sucks as hard as Symantec does. What is IMON? IMON is a multi-purpose scanner working on Winsock level. It takes advantage of the unprecedent advanced heuristics and serves for: 1. scanning email received through the POP3 protocol IMON works fully automatically with any POP3-based mail client without needing to configure anything (in very rare cases, you may need to add another POP3 port which can be done in IMON setup). Possible infiltrations are detected before infected email is stored in your mail client's mailbox and IMON offers you an action to take (this is the default setting, but IMON can be set up to take the desired action automatically). By default, IMON modifies the subject of infected email by putting information about the virus before the original subject. This feature can later be used in your mail client filter (e.g. you can define a rule to delete all email previously containing a virus . 2. scanning the HTTP traffic 3. blocking exploits made by some worms (e.g. Lovsan, Nachi, Red Code and many others without needing to have the appropriate patch installed) This feature called is always enabled, however, you can control whether to log exploit attempts to the virus log or not. And its quite simple to disable it if it bothers you. It certainly does NOT suck. NOD32 is the world leader of the Virus Bulletin 100% Awards having won more awards (21) than any competing product. Since its first submission for testing in May 1998, NOD32 was the only tested product that has never missed a single In the Wild virus.. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 421440 | 2006-01-16 00:44:00 | What is IMON? IMON is a multi-purpose scanner working on Winsock level. It takes advantage of the unprecedent advanced heuristics and serves for:That's nice, but totally irrelevant to what I posted. Yes, it does integrate itself with Winsock. It changes and fudges around with the very core low level bits Windows uses to talk to the internet. That IS the problem. If for whatever reason it breaks (software crashes, bad update, screwy uninstall, power failure at the wrong time, virus it misses that attacks it) etc etc it will stop your computer getting any internet access - therefore unable to gain easy access to a repair kit etc. I filed a bug with Nod32 on Friday for just that problem - if a message with a certain exotic character was sent via their mail proxy it would crash and the machine would have no traffic until it's Winsock was pulled out and replaced with the MS standard version. Basically the last thing you want a virus scanner to do. This is the kinda crap people have to put up with New.Net - they shouldn't have to accept it from supposedly a professional AV software vendor. |
ninja (1671) | ||
| 421441 | 2006-01-16 01:06:00 | Mac OS X at home Ubuntu Linux at work. That's nice but we are talking Windows here so totally irrelevant. What AV software do you tell people running Windows to use? |
CYaBro (73) | ||
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