RE: [K12OSN] Opinion on the best virus scanner for Windows2000

[Bert Rolston <bert rolston clear net nz>]

Hi Jim,

Yes Sophos does remove the files, but I've seen AVG do the same.

Both can also quarantine the files.

My question is "Why would you want to keep a virus on a network." Better
to restore the required CLEAN files from a CLEAN backup. Yes work will
be lost, but better a couple of days work for one person than years of
work for the whole organisation.

In this instance, looking after the system is actually looking after the
user as well.

Cheers,
Bert

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 03:06, Jim Kronebusch wrote:
> Only beef I had last time I checked Sophos was its stance on how to
> handle viruses.  You had two choices, delete the file, or leave the
> virus.  It did not have a heal option.  I called Sophos and asked them
> about this and their reasoning is legit, a healed file cannot be
> gauranteed unharmed so they only do what they can gaurantee.  Problem is
> if you have a machine that is infected and has critical files, or
> infected system files, you are hosed.  We had brought Sophos in when we
> had a major virus epidemic and had over 300 infected machines, problem
> was any machine cleaned with Sophos rendered it  inoperable as it had
> deleted critical system files.  I wasn't very happy, to me the best way
> to remove a virus isn't always to re-install an entire machine.  But if
> you are confident that they are intuitive enough to discover viruses
> before they are released and all you have to worry about is preventing
> infection instead of removing it, then their software works great.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: k12osn-admin redhat com [mailto:k12osn-admin redhat com] On Behalf
> Of Will Scurrell
> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 5:22 AM
> To: k12osn redhat com
> Subject: RE: [K12OSN] Opinion on the best virus scanner for Windows2000
> 
> 
> A question to you Bert, have you used Sophos on any duel processor
> machines? We used to use Sophos but moved to Panda as it was crashing
> any DP machines with 2000.
> 
> Will  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: k12osn-admin redhat com [mailto:k12osn-admin redhat com] On Behalf
> Of Bert Rolston
> Sent: 10 February 2004 11:19
> To: K12OSN
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Opinion on the best virus scanner for Windows2000
> 
> Hi Tom,
> 
> I've used Sophos with great success.
> 
> Sophos concentrates on network AV, is available for WIN, MAC, Novell,
> Linux, and Unix.
> 
> It can push updates out to clients, and has a regular newsletter with
> useful information.
> 
> The url is 
> 
> www.sophos.com
> 
> HTH
> 
> Bert
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 01:19, aust_txv ACCESS-K12 org wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > We have an Energy Management System which is interfaced to Windows2000
> > system.  Not my baby, I am just taking care of it ;)  I need to get
> some 
> > anti-virus software on that system.  Norton's for Windows 2000 ?
> > Opinions please.
> > Thank you for your time,
> > Tom Ventresco
> > Austintown Local Schools
> > 
> > 
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