From: "Glenn Meadows" 

AVAST is what's embedded in our Mail Server (Surge).  So far, so good.

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Glenn M.
"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
news:unfdr1ta59f3d8g87c2gbrrknp1v5mp0if{at}4ax.com...
>> "do no harm"
>
> Good point.  Maybe I'll stay with avast afterall.
>
> /m
>
>
> On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 12:17:35 -0500, "Rich Gauszka"

> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
>>news:dccdr11ni9eapkck6c7s9q00pdsnne9sk8{at}4ax.com...
>>> 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
>>
>>I gave up on Trend in April when my processor went to 100 % utilization
>>after an ill tested patch from Trend
>>
>>My chief hope for anti-virus software now is that it does me no harm.
>>Currently I'm using the Computer Associates  anti-virus freebie that SBC
>>provides. So far it's done me no harm unlike Trend, Symantec, AVG and
>>McAfee.
>>

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