On Fri, April 3, 2015 8:29 am, James B. Byrne wrote:>
> On Thu, April 2, 2015 17:11, J Martin Rushton wrote:
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>> Sorry to mention the "opposition" here, but I have a family
member's
>> laptop to protect, and I'm not allowed to upgrade it to Linux.
What's
>> the current best recommendation?
>> Thanks,
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> We (Harte & Lyne Limited) formerly used F-Prot out of Iceland for the
> remaining MS based desktops. We are presently switching to ClamAV for
> Windows (http://www.clamav.net/download.html).
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> Norton is better than nothing; but nowhere near adequate. The rest
> of the AV field I have no basis for evaluating.
>
> MicroSoft's SE has sort of dropped out of the AV race. See:
>
>
http://www.howtogeek.com/173291/goodbye-microsoft-security-essentials-microsoft-now-recommends-you-use-a-third-party-antivirus
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I for one would never trust MS as far as AV software is concerned: after
they first declared their system is not safe to run without 3rd party
software (antivirus).
All that said about AV options, I can't hold myself from mentioning:
The whole antivirus idea is fundamentally flawed. It is based on the
attempt to "enumerate bad". You can not enumerate bad. You can
enumerate
good, and prohibit everything else.
Valeri
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Valeri Galtsev
Sr System Administrator
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
Phone: 773-702-4247
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