[sdw2003] Managed Anti Virus?

[Joe Lagreca]

Josh,

Anti Virus is only part of the equation.  The other part is keeping
software patched and up to date.  You may want to look into:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/

or some other patch management software.

Joe LaGreca
Founder & Owner, BIG Net Online
619-393-1733 x200 Office
619-318-3246 Cell
www.BIGnetOnline.com



On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Josh Tays <josh.tays at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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