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Re: [OT] ZoneAlarm alternatives ??


  • Subject: Re: [OT] ZoneAlarm alternatives ??
  • From: "domdevitto" <dom@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:21:47 -0000

Yep, I had a recent meeting with the other ISPs, HMG and CESG and we
were all depressed about the decreasing effectiveness of traditional
antivirus, and low uptake of behavior-based protection.

:-(

I run nasties through viruscentral.com every now and then, and it's
usual for half of the 50 antivirus products it uses to not consider it
a threat :-(

Dom

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Andy Davies" <dajdavies@...> wrote:
>
> After AVG failed to pick up a Trojan the other week on my W2K box,
I've
> switched over to NOD32...
>
> On 02/10/2007, Alex Monaghan <ha@...> wrote:
> >
> > We resell AVG products and I was on the beta for the AVG
Firewall,
I've
> > never found any issue with this. Drop me a mail off list and I
can
provide
> > prices.
> >
> > AVG used to re-sell Kerio before their own firewall was released,
this
> > again
> > seemed to do the job well if you wanted a firewall only solution.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of
> > Dean Barrett
> > Sent: 02 October 2007 08:55
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] ZoneAlarm alternatives ??
> >
> > Has anyone got any suggestions for a lightweight
anti-virus/firewall
> > product
> >
> > I'm getting fed up with Zonealarm hogging resources at the
moment.
> >
> > I'm not sure which is best - previously Symantec seemed to work
fine on
> > other machines but then seemed to slow them down. I also just
removed
> > McAfee
> > from my fathers laptop as that seemed to be having quite a
detrimental
> > effect on performance.
> >
> > Any suggestions appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Dean.
> >
> >
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