Re: BlueCoat with McAfee or Kaspersky Malware Engines

[Russell Fulton <r.fulton () AUCKLAND AC NZ>]

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

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