Re: Anti-Virus

[Neil <neil () voidfx net>]

Gaddis, Jeremy L. wrote:
> Neil wrote:
> > I'm looking for a new antivirus to buy, and among other things, I'm
> > looking for one that is not going to sound alarms at my tools (one even
> > went so far as to block execution and try to delete John the Ripper and
> > some others).
>
> Was that McAfee v8 by chance?  Had that happen to me too, until I 
> figured out you could turn that off and/or tweak it.
>
> -j

No, it was NOD32.  It was triggering on netcat (somewhat 
understandable), john the ripper and brutus (both somewhat confusing). 
I wouldn't mind it triggering, except there was no easy way around it.

I also recently tried F-Secure, which I liked a bit better.  It offered 
a "Do nothing." option when it triggered; and it also caught some 
malware which NOD32 had apparently missed.  But it seems to randomly 
slow down my computer (and by slow down, I mean make unusable).

I should probably also mention that I'm not looking for an enterprise 
solution, I'm looking for something for personal use (on a laptop).

And thanks to everyone who's replied.

--
Neil
http://voidfx.net

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