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to: Antti Kurenniemi
from: Mike `/m`
date: 2005-12-31 11:33:16
subject: Re: Trojan Blues

From: Mike '/m' 

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 18:20:58 +0200, "Antti Kurenniemi"
 wrote:

>"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
>news:43b69e06$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Y'know, I've never tried F-Secure.  I'm shopping, too.  Sophos is OK, AVG
>> is OK, but not stellar at detection.  Kaspersky is a PITA at times, and I
>> haven't even looked at a centrally-administered version of that.  NOD32 is
>> fine, it seems, say a couple of friends, but one of its components
>> conflicts with common task/searchbar addons (Google DTS, toolbar; Yahoo
>> toolbar (from memory)).  You can run without the offending component.
>>
>> We have a Finn here.  Perhaps he can tell us what Finns think of F-secure,
>> and the story behind the split between Frisk, Iceland and F-Secure?
>
>I don't like it much (F-Secure that is), it's really bloated and too
>"clever" for it's own good. Also, all of the virus-infected
computers I've
>seen in the past couple of years have been running either Symantec or
>F-Secure stuff. I would not use it myself.


grrrr...  so what you're saying is that there's no good solution here?

Maybe I should just go back to running no AV software.  I've never had a
virus infection.  At the moment I have the avast free version, and that's
been OK.  But they still have nothing for this WMF fiasco....

What about trend? (oh, never mind about trend, I just visited their website
and they rate the WMF vuln as not critical....)

 /m

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