[THIN] Re: Independent tests (was Re: Virus protection)

We have been using Trend Scanmail with Emanager(for additional
attachment blocking control) on our Exchange server at our library here
for going on 5 years. Yes it was expensive but it is worth every penny.
In that time we blocked hundreds of thousands of viruses from getting
into our system and it has never let one get through!
It is by far and above the Cadillac of Antivirus programs.  BTW I was a
Virus investigator/researcher for NASA about 15 years ago when the
biggest threat was something called Stoned.  I used to email back and
forth with Frisk (FProt) and all them other researchers via usenet all
the time. Thats back when there wasn't such a thing as the internet. Our
biggest worry was Sneakernet...everybody would give a floppy of their
monthly report to the division secretary, she'd get infected and in turn
infect the whole building when she gave them their disk back. Fun. ; )
Regards,
Jim Kenzig
 
 

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 10:49 AM
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Subject: [THIN] Re: Independent tests (was Re: Virus protection)


We personally go with TrendMicro...for 2 reasons...offices in Japan and
the UK allow for rapid deployment of updated virus pattern definitions
before the outbreaks occur here in the US (the UK office normally sees
the virus outbreak there 5 hours before we get hit).  Also, the overhead
on our severs seems to be extremely small, even with all inbound and
outbound files being scanned under a heavy user load.
 
Just my $0.02.  Hope it helps you.
 
-Dave Melczer
dmelczer@xxxxxxxx <mailto:dmelczer@xxxxxxxx> 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Lambert [mailto:rlambert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 9:38 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Independent tests (was Re: Virus protection)



In my experience, I've had pretty much every brand of antivirus I've
used find something the other has not, and vice versa.

 

Norton, Sophos, Trend, Panda, McAfee... the list just goes on... I try
to stay away from Igotknockedup IT (InoculateIT CA), though.

 

Basically, why would anyone trying to sell a product say theirs wasn't
better than a competitor? It would be selling suicide not to. Personally
I prefer either McAfee, Sophos, or Trend... I couldn't tell you why,
though. It's just what I'm comfortable with. That's probably what it
boils down to anymore. That and incident/virus response.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Euan Cooper [mailto:Euan.Cooper@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 3:13 PM
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] Independent tests (was Re: Virus protection)

 

Just how "independent" is this test when the second line says 

Test report prepared under contract from Sophos Anti-Virus

While I don't want to "bag" Sophos as I have not direct knowledge of the
product[1] I bet with a bit of looking I could find similar
"independent" tests showing most of the major anti virus software
vendor's products favourably against their rivals.

Reminds me of an internal MS video presentation on NT3.5 I once saw  - a
question was asked about how NT was going to win against Novell.  One of
the key points was that any time anyone was running a comparison of NT
against any other NOS NT had to win - MS had a team whose sole job was
to make sure this happened.

I agree with Roger on this - AV software is pretty much a Ford vs
Holden[2] thing.  I would go so far as to say that no AV software in
itself is not enough to completely protect your network anyway.

-Ec

1  though I have heard good things about it

2 Localised for NZ

 

 -----Original Message-----
From: John Carlson [mailto:johnc@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, 29 January 2004 6:39 a.m.
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Virus protection

Absolutely there is a difference. I had a client who was running
Symantec Corporate and experiencing odd behavior on his network. I told
him it sounded like a virus and he assured me his AV software was up to
date. I set him up with a 30 day demo of Sophos and upon scanning his
network drives he found viruses in the first folder it scanned. Viruses
that Symantec had missed. It was the easiest sale I ever made. 

 

Don't just take my word for it. Here is an independent test comparing
Sophos to the majors:

 

http://www.veritest.com/clients/reports/sophos/sophos_antivirus.pdf
<http://www.veritest.com/clients/reports/sophos/sophos_antivirus.pdf>

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