Guest xiphias Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 I hope this is in the right place... I was wondering if anyone knew or could find out what antivirus microsoft M$ uses on their machines... i thought it might be mcafee sicne they use taht in hotmail and have mcafee messenger alerts... Any help would be appreciated. THX in advance Also can you take my poll You're Favourite AV program Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 Given they are bundling McAfee with future versions of windows, I'd guess McAfee. McAfee's centralised managment console, ePolicy Orchestrator, is pretty powerful, they'd do well to use it. As far as my 'favorite' av software, I used NAV 2002 at home because it requires little attention. Which ever of the big players you choose, they will *ALL* perform the same. Any errors or virus's that slip through will be down to user error..badly configured products, and lack of updating. google for icsa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JnCoKiLLa Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 norton is my fav cause it files all the junk first Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xiphias Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 thx for that... it's very confusing when several different sites are recommending different favourites... I think i've narrowed it down to Norton 2002 or Mcafee 6 (prolly 7 if the beta works out well). They seem to be the two most recommended ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 I cant emphasis enuff how much you need to appreciate the fact that they all perform comparably well. Make your choice on gui, performance hit, and automation, and ignore any idiots who claim av-A picks up virus's that av-B doesnt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKer Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 I've had norton 2002 for ages and it hasn't caused any problems with my system. Use mcafee at work and it has gone wrong a couple of times requiring a reboot to get it working again and it seems to take longer to load so I'de reccomend norton. There isn't really much in it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xiphias Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 well what i am most concerned about is performance hit and automation... i jsut want to set it and forget it... (automation) but then also not notice its even working... (performance). What is your recommendation considering these 2 points? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirk26 Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 McAfee is the best one out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 Nav2002. Fully automated updates, and you can disable on-access scanning with 2 clicks of the mouse (for gaming for example) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BananaMan Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 NAV Corp 7.6 here, solid as a rock and no bloat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 Originally posted by Jon Nav2002. Fully automated updates, and you can disable on-access scanning with 2 clicks of the mouse (for gaming for example) yeah for sure it's working great on my machine... never had probs with it and has caught some virus... perfomance wise i think it's stable and dosen't take up to much resources Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosh Naranek Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 McAffe .. suck hard on XP boxes ! I tried to install it on a couple of XP boxes ...It installed fine allright, but simply refused to run properly. It would start to scan and shortly after exit from the program. After numerous E-mails and suggestions fra McAffe .... We gave up and went for NAV Coporate instead. Never had any problems since. McAfee's centralised managment console, ePolicy Orchestrator, is pretty powerful, they'd do well to use it. So is Symantec's Corporate AV solution.I like the way found viruses are automatically submitted to SARC for examination and the fact that all new updates is automatically distrubuted across the LAN/WAN without any user involvement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xiphias Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 Seems Norton is the pick of the bunch... geez! can any1 explain the diff between 2002 and Corp editions? features etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xiphias Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 BananaMan - what theme is that? very nice indeed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 Kosh Naranek, I've deployed McAfee, via ePO, to our entire corporate network. Installed correctly, with the latest patches, is fine. 'McAffe .. suck hard on XP boxes !' I dont think its McAfee who sucks..... :right: (obviously you didnt give it much of a chance, given you cant even spell it correctly.. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahodes1 Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 Originally posted by Jon Kosh Naranek, I've deployed McAfee, via ePO, to our entire corporate network. Installed correctly, with the latest patches, is fine. 'McAffe .. suck hard on XP boxes !' I dont think its McAfee who sucks..... :right: (obviously you didnt give it much of a chance, given you cant even spell it correctly.. ) I haven't tried the newest version of McAfee but back in Windows 98 and McAfee 4 it caused a lot of problems, but so did Norton. Right now I'm running NAV Corp and its wonderful. Also bananaman in case you didn't know 7.61 is out, so your AV is outdated ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colordeficiency Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 I've read bout that MS gonna include their own anti-virus into the future version of WinXP or is it that their adding McAfee internal anti-virus support? Anyone remember MS own anti-virus during DOS time? How does it fare? As I've not have Internet Connection then, so no virus encounter or has I? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahodes1 Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 Originally posted by Alvin I've read bout that MS gonna include their own anti-virus into the future version of WinXP or is it that their adding McAfee internal anti-virus support? Anyone remember MS own anti-virus during DOS time? How does it fare? As I've not have Internet Connection then, so no virus encounter or has I? They are bundling a lite version of McAfee with new versions of Windows. Yeah I remember MSAV and Vsafe, then they suddenly disappeared. They were probably horrible anyway in terms or quality against the competition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BananaMan Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 Originally posted by xiphias BananaMan - what theme is that? very nice indeed It's Seer, for WindowBlinds. There's a msstyles port available but I prefer the original. Also bananaman in case you didn't know 7.61 is out, so your AV is outdated Hehe, thanks for the heads up. My NAVCE is already at 7.61, the screenshot doesn't reflect that because it was taken ages ago for a similar thread, and it was still on my server so I decided to post it here too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iconman Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 McAfee beats all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomwarren Veteran Posted June 27, 2002 Veteran Share Posted June 27, 2002 NAV is the best EVER anti virus, theres no doubt about that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xiphias Posted June 28, 2002 Share Posted June 28, 2002 ok... with norton AV corp... how do i set it to download updates from another computer? like i have two comps... how do i download the defs on my main comp then have the other one automatically get those defs from my machine rather than off the net? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted June 28, 2002 Share Posted June 28, 2002 NAV is the best EVER anti virus, theres no doubt about that Exactly the kind of narrow mindedness I try to warn people of. Do you think a comment like that is useful, without futher explanation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazydesert Posted June 28, 2002 Share Posted June 28, 2002 Originally posted by xiphias ok... with norton AV corp... how do i set it to download updates from another computer? like i have two comps... how do i download the defs on my main comp then have the other one automatically get those defs from my machine rather than off the net? whoa dude, you're talking a couple hundred bucks to get norton AV corp.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LVirus Posted June 28, 2002 Share Posted June 28, 2002 I use AVG .. someone here said its good and I tried it. Its very fast and low resource consumer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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