[sdw2003] Managed Anti Virus?

[Josh Tays]

Unfortunately I can't tell my clients to not run Anti Virus.

The biggest problem is Windows XP machines with malware and rootkit
infections.  It brings me income, but I am getting tired of cleaning the
same crap off of workstations day in and day out lately. When I say anti
virus I believe that it should encompass traditional virus protection with
malware, etc... but with the least resource impact possible.  I understand
that no single product will have 100% detection but something out there has
to be better than SAV with XP machines.


On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Tracy Reed <treed at ultraviolet.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 01:44:02PM -0800, Josh Tays spake thusly:
> > Any recommendations for a good centralized anti virus product with a
> > good detection rate and small footprint?
>
> Is Windows based antivirus really worthwhile anymore? I don't have a
> firm opinion one way or another but a lot of folks do:
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=antivirus+is+dead
>
> Especially in light of Google's incident this past week it seems
> antivirus is useless against spearphishing so all we can do in that
> case is hope nobody takes an interest in us. And so many viruses and
> variants are coming out that they are nowhere near keeping up with the
> latest.
>
> The question is not what is your antivirus catching but what is it NOT
> catching and is that acceptable?
>
>
>
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> Tracy Reed
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Josh