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Re[2]: [inbox] Re: Hi! Antiviruses Comparison - A Little Research Results
From: 3APA3A <3APA3A () SECURITY NNOV RU>
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 13:00:10 +0400
Dear Curt Purdy, --Friday, April 16, 2004, 10:39:14 PM, you wrote to 3APA3A () security nnov ru: CP> Been following this thread and I can bite my tongue no longer. As a CP> long-time user of the first AV in the world, F-Secure, then F-Prot in '88, I CP> have found it to be the only AV that could detect and remove every virus I CP> have ever come upon, including multiple instances where fully updated Norton CP> and McAfee either did not detect or could not remove them. CP> They were the first AV with signature auto-updating over 4 years ago. And it CP> does not update once a week or once a day, but continually checks on an CP> hourly basis for new sigs. It has three seperate scan engines, so it's like CP> having a layered defense in one product. And it operates at the lowest CP> level of any AV I am aware of, running at the base level of I/O, actually CP> grabbing it off the disk before any other process can touch it, making it CP> extremely fast and efficient with no noticble impact in performance, even on CP> slow boxes. My $.02 CP> Curt Purdy CISSP, GSEC, MCSE+I, CNE, CCDA CP> Information Security Engineer CP> DP Solutions Do you remember Nimda worm? It was probably first worm to exploit Outlook Express vulnerability to launch itself automatically. On Windows NT 4.0 F-Secure engine (well, it was few years ago, I don't remember version) had a problem - it catch this worm _after_ it was executed. And worm successfully spreads from protected machine approx. in ~50% of cases... -- ~/ZARAZA Áđîńüňĺ ńňŕđŕňüń˙ - íč÷ĺăî čç ýňîăî íĺ âűéäĺň. (Ňâĺí) _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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- 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)
- 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[2]: [inbox] Re: Hi! Antiviruses Comparison - A Little Research Results 3APA3A (Apr 17)
- RE: Re[2]: [inbox] Re: Hi! Antiviruses Comparison - A Little Research Results Curt Purdy (Apr 17)
- 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)