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Try F-Prot[ Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#5)
by Anonymous User on Thu Mar 25, 2004 at 11:05:31 AM PDT

I've been using F-Prot (www.f-prot.com) for a year now, and have been very glad to be rid of the Norton/Macfee mess. I had plenty of problems with the "big" guys; F-Prot works well and can be set up to automatically download and distribute updates on your network. And F-Prot is reasonably priced ($50/year for 10 computers). Another issue is the speed of updates. I recently saw a research project which tried to determine how fast AV companies reacted to virii. (I'm afraid I don't remember where I saw that.) F-Prot was near the top, while not surprisingly, Norton and Macfee were very near the bottom. With the rapidly changing virii recently (our network is averaging 20 incoming viruses per day), fast reactions are critical. So I'd recommend dumping both Norton and Macafee. There are lots of alternatives out there that don't spam you, don't DRM you, don't try to do a dozen things you don't need, and work great (better, even, if you think that catching viruses is the job of an anti-virus).

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Here's the link to antivirus response times[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#8)
by Anonymous User on Fri Mar 26, 2004 at 01:16:47 AM PDT

The study you mentioned about the average response time of antivirus companies to new viruses in the wild is part of an article by Brian Livingston at:

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/executive_tech/article.php/3316511


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