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[Phil Stracchino]

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John W. Moore III wrote:
> James Gillespie wrote:
> 
>> If it's not too far off topic, what do you use, other than ZA  to guard
>> against virus and malware?
> 
> AVG for A/V, Spybot S&D + Spyware Blaster & Windows Advanced Care 3 Beta
> 2.8.5 for routine sweeps.  These Apps are merely back-ups to intelligent
> & prudent Web practices.

While I've used AVG for a long time, about a month after Grisoft EOL'd
AVG7.5 and forced updates to AVG8.0, I ditched it.  AVG7.5 was good,
though slower than AVG7.  AVG8 is an utter CPU hog that loads even fast
machines to a crawl and, in my experience, has a nasty habit for
silently breaking mail delivery without telling you it did anything.
(On every machine we installed it on, it silently installed a mail
filtering proxy on both incoming and outgoing mail, which - when
relaying outgoing mail to the server - HELO'd as 127.0.0.1 and could not
be configured to do otherwise, which of course caused the mailserver to
reject the mail.)

So anyway, I switched to Avast! 4.8 and have been happy with it thus
far.  Among other nice features, it receives virus database updates much
more frequently than AVG - sometimes several times a day - and has an
option to perform a boot-time scan before Windows finishes loading,
which I'm given to understand circumvents certain ways in which malware
can exploit Windows kernel behavior in order to hide from filesystem scans.


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  Phil Stracchino, CDK#2     DoD#299792458     ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355
  alaric at caerllewys.net   alaric at metrocast.net   phil at co.ordinate.org
         Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater
                 It's not the years, it's the mileage.
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