From: Blunderov (squooker@mweb.co.za)
Date: Tue Mar 23 2004 - 03:46:13 MST
Walter Watts
Sent: 23 March 2004 09:45 AM
My two top concerns are the effectiveness and timeliness of their virus
signature files and system resource overhead (I guess that's three
concerns).
[Blunderov]You may want to take into consideration the threat of
'spyware'. Whilst not nearly as serious as a virus, a sufficient
accumulation of the beasties may slow your system down, not to mention
the privacy issues. I use 'Xblock'.
Another useful program is 'Sentinel'; it can be configured to perform a
scan on bootup of file types capable of hosting virii, and pass any
files which have been changed since the last bootup to the virus scanner
for further examination. By this means you may hope to quickly limit any
damage that a virus is able to cause if your machine does happen to
become infected.
Best regards
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