Full Disclosure mailing list archives
RE: [inbox] Re: Hi! Antiviruses Comparison - A Little Research Results
From: "Curt Purdy" <purdy () tecman com>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:39:14 -0500
Of 3APA3A wrote:
FT> Only finnish F-Secure and american CA has Windows/Linux AV products FT> with multiple independent virus scanning engines. This gives protection FT> against false positives, but requires more system resources. Not exactly. At least Chinese iduba.net from Kingsoft uses 2 kernels. As far as I know Russian Dr.Web works on engine to work with multiple antiviral kernels of different vendors.
Been following this thread and I can bite my tongue no longer. As a long-time user of the first AV in the world, F-Secure, then F-Prot in '88, I have found it to be the only AV that could detect and remove every virus I have ever come upon, including multiple instances where fully updated Norton and McAfee either did not detect or could not remove them. They were the first AV with signature auto-updating over 4 years ago. And it does not update once a week or once a day, but continually checks on an hourly basis for new sigs. It has three seperate scan engines, so it's like having a layered defense in one product. And it operates at the lowest level of any AV I am aware of, running at the base level of I/O, actually grabbing it off the disk before any other process can touch it, making it extremely fast and efficient with no noticble impact in performance, even on slow boxes. My $.02 Curt Purdy CISSP, GSEC, MCSE+I, CNE, CCDA Information Security Engineer DP Solutions ---------------------------------------- If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked. -- White House cybersecurity adviser Richard Clarke _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
Current thread:
- Hi! Antiviruses Comparison - A Little Research Results Rafel Ivgi, The-Insider (Apr 16)
- Re: Hi! Antiviruses Comparison - A Little Research Results Tobias Weisserth (Apr 16)
- Re: Hi! Antiviruses Comparison - A Little Research Results Gregory A. Gilliss (Apr 16)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Hi! Antiviruses Comparison - A Little Research Results Feher Tamas (Apr 16)
- RE: [inbox] Hi! Antiviruses Comparison - A Little Research Results Curt Purdy (Apr 16)
- Re: Hi! Antiviruses Comparison - A Little Research Results 3APA3A (Apr 16)
- RE: Hi! Antiviruses Comparison - A Little Research Results Sean Crawford (Apr 16)
- Re: Hi! Antiviruses Comparison - A Little Research Results Exibar (Apr 16)
- Re: Hi! Antiviruses Comparison - A Little ResearchResults Gregh (Apr 18)
- Re: Hi! Antiviruses Comparison - A Little Research Results 3APA3A (Apr 16)
- RE: [inbox] Re: Hi! Antiviruses Comparison - A Little Research Results Curt Purdy (Apr 16)
- Re: Hi! Antiviruses Comparison - A Little Research Results Feher Tamas (Apr 16)