Takitothemacs wrote:... fairly symptomatic then that you dont regualrly patch your machine(s)
I was agreeing with you. Tool.
I think I'm too sarcastic that even when I'm not being like that, it seems like I am
and calling me a "Tool" is going to help?Lothandar wrote:I was agreeing with you. Tool.
I think I'm too sarcastic that even when I'm not being like that, it seems like I am
I used to think the same about McAfee until I recently had the mispleasure of witnessing the attempted deployment of Sophos to to 171 schools. McAfee is a dream compared to the utter joke that is Sophos. Never before have I come across a virus scanner that requires XP SP1 to even work (or IE5.5+ on pre WinXP machines), doesn't do anything with viruses by default other than warn you have - you have to set it in options if you want it to clean/remove infected files. The current version is slightly better, but the previous version forced you to install the auto-update section as a seperate program, meaning you have to run 2 installs which might sound like nothing but when you times that by the amount of computers then again by the amount of schools and it soon builds up. The autoupdater is also buggy working through a proxy, sometimes you have to load up IE and authenticate via IE before Sophos wakes up and starts to update even if you've correctly filled the proxy settings in Sophos. Overall, I'd never, ever touch Sophos again, not only the worst peice of AV software I've ever seen, but probably one of the worst programs I've ever seen.Takitothemacs wrote:why would he be doing that... McAffee is crap (IMHO) there are much better options out there for protecting your PC... also there is a great thing called being careful what programs, downloads you do install/use.
Always used Symantec NAV Corp Addition which has the same feature set you mention above, never had a problem with it myself.Takitothemacs wrote:aye... there are plenty of utter crap ones... not had any experience with Sophos myself... but have worked with CA, Mcaffee and Norton with bad experiences... the only ones I have any positive exp with have been Trend on a corporate level and AVG from a home user basis... AVG is nice as the schedules work nicely and the autoupdates pretty much take care of themselves and it requires little to no intervention for my home stuff which is nice. Also for a home user... its free!
Trend kicks the arse of all others in my experience.. the central management is absolutely brilliant... there is no better feeling than having the ease of including a script in the login that updates on startup and if the machine wasnt online when a client upgrade took place then it installs the latest client whilst the server performs pattern and engine update checks every half hour, updating clients whenever a change is detected...
Even forcing updates to any machine that VPN connects to the server before they are fully connected... lurvly application and throughout the sasser/blaster outbreaks we were as good as oblivious to the mess that was unfolding around the world as Trend had done its job... but then thats why it is also one of the most expensive solutions out there these days...
That works fine on work machines, it's a real pita on home machines still though since most games and other home orientated programs still don't work properly without admin rights, I know they can be fixed, but I spend all day at working fixing PCs when I get home I just want to playCromcruaich wrote:Ofcourse you should never log on to your PC with an account that has admin privs as well. Use runas if a proggy doesnt like being run as a non admin. This would certainly stop this worm and most others.
open up a dos box, i mean command prompt (!) and type runas /?