antivirus update fuckups

[willawake]

mcafee rolled out dat 4715 on friday which falsely identified many important files as W95/CTX virus including excel.exe. They rolled out 4716 shortly after but some sys admins had a nice weekend.

mcaffe w95/ctx advisory

the long list of files

sans handlers diary

maybe its a good time to check your scanner is set to quarantine not delete files. another vendor could screw up like that.

[stretch0069]

Re: mcafee update fuckup

i'm running Norton.....but I need to buy another subscription so I can get rid of the damned reminders.

if i buy one subscription, will it cover all three machines????

[Newbie2]

Re: mcafee update fuckup

It would be really cool if this could happen! Look at the renewal date!

[cods69]

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Look at the renewal date!

It's even longer on the Corporate version.

mcafee rolled out dat 4715 on friday which falsely identified many important files as W95/CTX virus including excel.exe.

That is too funny! My old employer uses it (huge retailer) and rolls out the definitions sometimes several times a day. Must ring 'em to see what happened.

[willawake]

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mine shows the dat as follows in the scan logs. set to update daily at 5pm. Guess i missed the bad 4715

Friday 4714, Saturday 4716, Tuesday 4717

[Newbie2]

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It's even longer on the Corporate version.

Well, a renewal date of December 29, 2029 is overkill for the average user.

There is a crack for Norton AntiVirus 2002/2003 to have such a renewal date somewhere on the Internet, but its use in my opinion is illegal, since if someone is using that crack, then they're not paying.

The image that I posted was a modified image, I have the original. It's at a reasonable renewal date of March 15, 2007.


Here is the original image:

[cods69]

Re: mcafee update fuckup

There is a crack for Norton AntiVirus 2002/2003 to have such a renewal date somewhere on the Internet, but its use in my opinion is illegal, since if someone is using that crack, then they're not paying.

There is a crack for almost anything if you are that way inclined.

I was actually stating that the NAV "Corporate Edition" does not have expiration, not that you should circumvent expiration.

[willawake]

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was actually stating that the NAV "Corporate Edition" does not have expiration

i believe you are incorrect unless you have experience of some enterprise volume licensing version

edit : no i am confusing versions, sorry

[willawake]

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and now its symantec's turn

Symantec's Norton security software began cutting AOL users from the internet last week after a faulty security update judged that AOL traffic was malicious.

http://www.computerweekly.com/Articl...ofAOLusers.htm

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...06031520164313

[Chris1992]

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lol... AOL itself is malicious.

[CaysE]

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Norton has been a joke since v2003 rolled out, and McAfee's consumer products are even worse. If you want a real anti-virus suite, www.eset.com has it. You're welcome in advance.

[Decade]

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Have used AVG free edition for more than one year now and it really does a good job ofcourse pro-edition can do much more but free edition got most of my needs.
Try it
Here's a link:
http://www.grisoft.com/doc/289/lng/us/tpl/tpl01

[willawake]

Re: antivirus update fuckups

i think i will pass on AVG. i installed it once and got the most significant infection on a pc which i have had for a while.

https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showth...&highlight=avg

most of the time i deal with adware not virii, symantec corporate 8.11, zyxel router firewall and attachment type banning and antivirus on the mailserver are ok.

i wont touch symantec 10 though, i trialled it but slowed down shutdown incredibly due to registry issue. i agree with CaysE's comments on the consumer versions of both the big vendors. especially with integrated firewall etc.

any more votes for nod32 or other solutions.

[Decade]

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I belive most antivirus softs got their weak spots, I think you just
had bad luck
Most of my friends use AVG and they have never had any trouble so far.
Had to buy a new router this time a Netgear, I've had enough trouble with my old D-link which ended up in a bad smelling cloud comming up under my workbench

[willawake]

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maybe but my time is precious. i do applaud avg's strategy of a free version though.

the netgear should be a good router, many of theirs are designed by zyxel. check the caps though, both companies choose the same crap.

did you figure out failure mode of the dlink? we would like some pics

[Topcat]

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Running Symantec Antivirus corporate edition v10. No subscription required, and seems to do a very good job.

[willawake]

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no slow shutdowns? check your event viewer, what does it say?

[Topcat]

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On corp edition 10, it shuts down clean. I ran corp version 7 before 10, and version 7 was a heap of shit, especially with XP. It was always doing strange things. Version 10 on XP runs great. Version 10 on my win2k A/S machine does take a few minutes to shut down, but I installed it over flaky version 7, which may be part of the problem. On XP, it shuts down fast, like normal. The win2k machine gets shut down only when I need to change out hardware, so that's not very often. It took about 2 minutes for it to shut down last week when I upgraded the RAM from 1gb to 3gb. It left no nastygrams in the event viewer.

[willawake]

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hmmm this sounds good. it should show "windows cannot unload your registry file" with very slow shutdown. i have seen it documented elsewhere on the net and seen it myself in testing. i might give it a try with another build. i do like symantec corporate.

[davmax]

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A new input. I have replaced many Norton AV installs over the years due to infections, replace with Kaspersky Personal AV. In the last week I have encountered two systems with AVG that were infected. One could not be updated, so I installed the latest version and a system scan revealed 34 infected files due to Trojan Downloader W32. AVG could not deal with these infections, confirmed by a second scan that indicated they were still present.

I removed AVG and installed Kaspersky Personal and a scan automatically disinfected or deleted the files as appropriate. I have found this product to be very effective, for years now it has been able to deal with every attack without resorting to quarantine or vault.

If anybody has doubts about protection I suggest they try Kaspersky: www.kaspersky.com
They have US and Australian sites. Also check out the companion site: http://www.viruslist.com/en/