anti-virus du jour

From: Manthorp14 Jan 2014 10:17
To: Ken (SHIELDSIT) 31 of 40
Merka in the snow?
From: Ken (SHIELDSIT)14 Jan 2014 10:20
To: Manthorp 32 of 40
Ha, you're timing is amazing!  No, it's raining!  I am moving to a new server.  Give it 1 minute and I'll have those copied over!
From: Ken (SHIELDSIT)14 Jan 2014 10:23
To: Manthorp 33 of 40
It's all more better now, see!
From: Manthorp14 Jan 2014 11:00
To: Ken (SHIELDSIT) 34 of 40
Cool, ta Ken.
From: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)14 Jan 2014 11:31
To: Ken (SHIELDSIT) 35 of 40
I guess the real point is that the tests used all the capacity of the suites, not just the AV:

"In this test, all protection features of the product can be used to prevent infection - not just signatures or heuristic file scanning. A suite can step in at any stage of the process – accessing the URL, download- ing the file, formation of the file on the local hard drive, file access, file execution "
From: Ken (SHIELDSIT)14 Jan 2014 11:33
To: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD) 36 of 40
Ah very good point!  That's why we need that new i7 to run Norton with its AV, Firewall, Privacy Guard, Link Scanner, NSA Notifier, and some other stuff in there!
From: ANT_THOMAS14 Jan 2014 12:19
To: ALL37 of 40
My only issue with bitdefender is that it tries to block far too many URLs/websites for my liking. I'm sure it's stopped me from using pastebin in the past because it blocks the post.php page (or whatever it is called) when you submit.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)15 Jan 2014 02:24
To: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD) 38 of 40
I think you may be getting overhet about this. Deep breaths, and stop cruising dodgy URLs you get in unsolicited email.
From: Ken (SHIELDSIT)15 Jan 2014 07:18
To: ANT_THOMAS 39 of 40
I had it block all internet traffic on multiple computers.  It all happened within a few days so I think they must have had a bad update go out.  I know I removed it from at least 7 computers.
From: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)15 Jan 2014 10:50
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX) 40 of 40
I think you may be bonkers.