RE: Re: [iris-photos] OT - VIRUSES

Just to throw my two cents in here, as I am one of those "up to the minute"
people referred to in another post. For the home user, go with the Panda
software anti-virus or the Trendmicro anti-virus. both are easy to use, and,
though I have not worked with Trend in over a year, easy to configure. Stay
away from Norton (Symantec) and McAfee home versions. Norton is a piece of
crap, despite the continuous glowing reviews it gets, missing too many
viruses, and also for not getting virus definitions correct on the first
try. The home user version of McAfee, I just don't like (personal opinion),
but I love the corporate edition, especially the new VirusScan 8.0i that I
am currently testing.

Be sure to get a firewall, even if you have a dial-up connection. I see more
hits on firewall protection on dial-up connections than I do on broadband
connections. Cable is a close second. There is a lot of nasties out there
that just don't need e-mail to infect your machine, and enough nasty people
who are looking for an easy machine to get into to use for their own
purposes. I recommend ZoneAlarm. There is a free version that is pretty
good, for the penny-pinchers out there (is there an iris named Penny
Pincher?), but you need to dig a bit to find it on their site.

Finally, be sure that you have the latest patches for your OS and programs.
Many of them close security holes. However, those of you who are running XP,
be wary of SP2. We have found enough gotcha's in it to hold off on
deployment for the time being.

Oh, and before I crawl back into the wall here, consider changing your
browser, if you are an IE user. IE is simply too easy to exploit, even a
fully patched version. Consider Netscape, or my current favorite, Mozilla's
Firefox.

Any comments to this (except for the hidden iris question), please contact
me off list, to keep the chatter more on subject.

\\Steve//

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-iris@hort.net [o*@hort.net]On Behalf Of Debby
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 12:15 PM
To: iris@hort.net
Subject: Re: [iris] Re: [iris-photos] OT - VIRUSES


I've tried McAfee, Grisoft and Norton. I wasn't too impressed with Grisoft.
It didn't scan more than about 30,000 files - less than 1/3 of what others
scanned. McAfee and Norton I thought were both okay, but when I needed to
renew this year I bought Panda Internet Security.

I had scanned with Norton just prior to uninstalling it and installing Panda
and it said my computer was clean. After installing Panda I ran it, and it
found 12 infected emails I had on file. I was stunned. I had felt pretty
secure with Norton.

Anyway, Panda updates daily, or as needed - in fact 3 times yesterday
alone - for a total of almost 60 new virus definitions. Scary isn't it? That
so many new ones need to be developed to protect our machines? Panda also
provides a firewall, anti-spyware protection, anti-dialer protection,
ant-spam protection and even web content filtering if you get the Internet
Security bundle as opposed to just the anti-virus. And it just runs quietly
in the background and I don't have to think about it.

I don't own shares in the company <vbg>, but I'm very pleased with the
protection provided and I wish someone had told me about it. Instead I did
searches online to learn about it myself.

Just thought I'd pass this on for whoever might be interested.

Debby, Sk.



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