Educause Security Discussion mailing list archives
Re: BlueCoat with McAfee or Kaspersky Malware Engines
From: Russell Fulton <r.fulton () AUCKLAND AC NZ>
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:53:28 +1300
On 17/01/2009, at 4:07 AM, Stanclift, Michael wrote:
We use McAfee Enterprise on our desktops and have been consistently disappointed with its levels of detection. However, Kaspersky has an engine superior to nearly everyone else on the market and both in my use and in testing it's rated to have one of the best detection rates in the industry.
I think you will find that all AV products are having trouble keeping up now. We use Nod32 and have noticed an increasing failure rate over the past few months. Malware is now changing so frequently that AV vendors are struggling to keep up and once the malware get installed it then protects itself so that the AV never finds it (root kits) or hooks itself into Windows so that AV can not remove the files because they are held open by the OS. I would suggest that changing your AV vendor will not solve this problem. Russell
Attachment:
smime.p7s
Description:
Current thread:
- BlueCoat with McAfee or Kaspersky Malware Engines Mark Rogowski (Jan 15)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: BlueCoat with McAfee or Kaspersky Malware Engines Sabo, Eric (Jan 15)
- Re: BlueCoat with McAfee or Kaspersky Malware Engines Mark Rogowski (Jan 16)
- Re: BlueCoat with McAfee or Kaspersky Malware Engines Stanclift, Michael (Jan 16)
- Re: BlueCoat with McAfee or Kaspersky Malware Engines Sabo, Eric (Jan 16)
- Re: BlueCoat with McAfee or Kaspersky Malware Engines Mark Rogowski (Jan 16)
- Re: BlueCoat with McAfee or Kaspersky Malware Engines Valdis Kletnieks (Jan 16)
- Re: BlueCoat with McAfee or Kaspersky Malware Engines Russell Fulton (Jan 16)
- Re: BlueCoat with McAfee or Kaspersky Malware Engines David Harley (Jan 17)
- Re: BlueCoat with McAfee or Kaspersky Malware Engines Ken Connelly (Jan 17)
- Re: BlueCoat with McAfee or Kaspersky Malware Engines David Harley (Jan 19)