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RE: What about Kaspersky AV?
From: "Bob Dienhart" <rdienhart () alt-tab cc>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:57:45 -0500
It's my understanding, based on a late 2007 PCMagazine review of several AV products, that Norton 360 is CLASSIC Bloatware 'cuz it has a footprint exceeding 100MB. Small is beautiful - Norton/Symantec's never small. But I did recommend Norton Internet Security to a friend (single machine, simple user) based on the same magazine review. It presented a more modest footprint than was typical for Norton. And I needed something that was complete, including a bi-directional host based firewall that wouldn't nag the user with undecipherable popups when something bad tried to "phone Home." According to the review, this product's firewall was capable of intelligent self tuning. Will it provide perfect protection? Nope. None will. But it should be good enough and will not leave the user to decide what to do when 'abslamggtc.dll' (fictitious name) appears in a popup warning the user that some 'new' program is trying to get to the Internet. We'll see what happens over time. My AV of choice for the past couple of years has been NOD32. I didn't choose Eset's ESS because it did not fare as well as the Norton product and the default firewall install configuration did no more than XP's own firewall did - inbound protection only. Bob
-----Original Message----- From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On Behalf Of parveenvashishtha () yahoo com Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 11:01 PM To: security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: Re: What about Kaspersky AV? Hi For a 10000+ user company I think you should go for Symantec as it's excellent at detecting viruses. Before you make a final decision you should give a try to Norton 360 which is a all-in-one solution, features include Identity Safe,Backup and restore,Network monitoring,antispam and the unique Browser Defender which Defends against obfuscated code attacks using ActiveX , JavaScript, VBScript & drive-by downloads.
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- Re: What about Kaspersky AV? parveenvashishtha (Mar 19)
- Re: What about Kaspersky AV? Jon R. Kibler (Mar 19)
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- Re: What about Kaspersky AV? Jon R. Kibler (Mar 19)
- Re: What about Kaspersky AV? Geoffrey Gowey (Mar 21)
- Re: What about Kaspersky AV? Kartik (Mar 19)
- Re: What about Kaspersky AV? Tim Stevens (Mar 20)
- RE: What about Kaspersky AV? Ackley, Alex (Mar 21)