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What do some of our network admins use on their servers?
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Have a look at the attached window capture of my current processes. The Norton ones are:Quote:
It runs a number of processes which can be resource intensive!
Navapsvc.exe
ccEvtMgr.exe
ccApp.exe
CCPXYSVC.EXE
NISUM.EXE
These Norton process run at startup:
ccApp.exe - see link above
ccRegvfy
Does that help to explain?
LOL, I'm not pressing you into it man, sorry if it came across that way. I just really want to know so that I can conserve resources and learn more. That's all :)
Anyways, wow.. looking at the attachment I can definitely see that it takes up a good deal of memory usage/resources on your system. I see what you are saying now, thanks for clarifying for me and explaining.
Hey Hey,
I'm a proud supporter of AVG... I think it's about the best of the AVs... The free version has never failed me...
I ran without AV until last year when we were required to have AV installed in order to access the network at the college... I believe that properly patched, secure computers will do the trick.. Scan with online solutions (like TrendMicro's Housecall) or solutions that don't have to be installed like (SysClean from TrendMicro or (eww) Stinger from McAfee) once a week or every two weeks and that's all that's really required....
I like AVG for a number of reasons:
Scheduled Automatic Updates (for free... no need for this Subscription crap) and Scans
Email Protection and Realtime Protection (again it's all free and the Email protection works amazingly well)
It's not a memory hog like Norton
It's Free!
However, I'm almost tempted to check out TrendMicro's RealTime AV Solution... I'm most impressed with SysClean... we've had major problems with infections of SpyBot/SDBot/Forbot and Norton can't clean it, eTrust simply renames it... I wrote a batch file to clean it... but it was a 40K batch file and was growing daily... then I stumbled upon SysClean and it cleans all the variations quite easily and simply and also scans for several other viruses across the harddrive.... remove dormant copies as well as the active ones.
In the college... the standard is eTrust... We have it liscensed for all Machines in the college, all ITY students, all Residence Students and Staff and Faculty to take home for use on their PCs. I find it to be useless software... It ranks right up beside McAfee for being the biggest POS ever... Our network is riddled with viruses because eTrust doesn't have nearly complete or indepth enough definitions... it's useless software... McAfee is just as bad... It's distributed to all residence students at a University about an hour - hour and a half from here... My cousin and her friends all attend there.. I cleaned 1000s of viruses off their computers when they moved out of the residence... McAfee was completely up to date.. just had very poor defs.
I've seen residence students with 100s of viruses while running RealTime AV protection and I've seen knowledgeable users with no AV and no viruses.... You have to factor in knowledge (sense to run a firewall (hardware or software), install patches and updates, and not pirate a bunch of **** from kazaa, limewire, winmx, etc)... P2P programs are definately the number 1 source of viruses.... We've cleaned students and within a few hours had them back again with virus riddled computers... They went back to their room and installed MSN and P2P software and boom.... picked up a shitload of stuff.....
AV is nice.. and handy.. but it's not an end all solution by any means.. Used in conjunction with security, updating, firewalls, malware scanners... it can keep a user quite safe.... but safey comes from knowledge.... Most users would be better off dropping the over priced norton subscriptions.... getting a free AV solution and spending the saved money on a computer basics class...
Peace,
HT
For corporate desktops I've used {N|S}AVCE 7 and 8 (8 is far better).Quote:
For mailservers I have used kaspersky's mail plugin on qmail and it worked really well. Since it wasn't free, and now I think they charge an amount based on the number of mailboxes and domains it will support whereas before it was a flat fee, I'd definitely look into ClamAV.
On my home fileserver here I have ClamAV, and it seems pretty lean and it does its job.
Do you mean me? lolQuote:
By HTRegz
Most users would be better off dropping the over priced norton subscriptions.... getting a free AV solution and spending the saved money on a computer basics class...
I was considering AVG for when my subscription for Norton ends. Now though, I will be investigating clamwin, especially since thehorse13 recommends it over AVG!
Hey Hey,Quote:
Originally posted here by Simple Simon
Do you mean me? lol
I was considering AVG for when my subscription for Norton ends. Now though, I will be investigating clamwin, especially since thehorse13 recommends it over AVG!
Definately not you... the idiots in residence that waste their money on it... :P heh...
TH13 recommended Clamwin? I may have to check it out also.. Soda piqued my curiosity and if TH13 uses it too I'll prolly give it a looksy...
Peace
HT
HTRegz: I'm actually about to download and test out AVG and see how I like it, the general feel, if it tickles my fancy, etc but I had a question. This is a newbie question, but it's probably because I never tried to: You can fully un-install Norton from your system, correct? The reason I'm asking is because when I get AVG and if I like it, I don't want Norton to interfere in the performance/etc of AVG. Thanks in advance man.
EDIT: TH13 recommended Clamwin over AVG? Hrmm, and I've heard nothing but excellent things about AVG (and Clamwin for that matter).
I would hope so!Quote:
You can fully un-install Norton from your system, correct?
I've decided to write a tutorial on clamwin and custom signatures and maybe other stuff too. I will probably start it tonight, post it in the next week or so.
The more people that use clamwin, the stronger it gets!
In terms of the GUI
AVG is soooo UGLY!!! But it's usable, so thats what counts. I prefer ClamWin anyday though.
I was using AVG, but because of the recommedations here I'm going to try ClamWin. SodaPopinsky, can you give a reason you like it more? I'm just curious for your opinion. Thanks!
Regards,
Xierox