Re: Antivirus Tools Fool XP's Security Center
From: Leythos (void_at_nowhere.lan)
Date: 02/03/05
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Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 18:09:10 GMT
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 11:17:34 -0600, Harry Ohrn wrote:
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> "! anonymous" <anonymous@anonymous.anonymous> wrote in message
> news:36f46rF5254uaU1@individual.net...
> | Antivirus Tools Fool XP's Security Center
> | http://www.msfn.org/comments.php?shownews=11726
> |
> | Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 2 is supposed to improve security.
> | Its Windows Security Center should alert you when your antivirus
> | software is missing or out of date. But in our tests, both McAfee's
> | Internet Security Suite 2005 and Symantec's Norton Internet Security
> | 2005 crippled SP2's ability to deliver accurate alerts immediately
> | after installation.
> |
> | We installed each application on a PC running SP2, and both caused the
> | Windows Security Center to report erroneously that the products were
> | up-to-date. Any antivirus software must be updated immediately after
> | you install it to protect the computer against viruses discovered
> | since the software's initial release.
> |
> | McAfee and Symantec acknowledge that their products intentionally
> | disable the Windows Security Center's messaging feature. Both
> | companies say the reason for doing so is to streamline customers'
> | experience; neither company plans to alter its practices.
> |
> | Full story: PC World
> | http://www.pcworld.com/resource/article/0,aid,119376,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp
>
> So both McAfee and Symantec build software to run on Microsoft's platform.
> They intentionally cripple the very platform they run on. Sounds like a
> parasite. The parasite invades the host and then cripples it. Another good
> reason to avoid purchasing McAfee and Symantec products.
If you read the article it was NIS (Norton Internet Security) which has
always been a bad thing to install on any computer. Symantec branded
products like Symantec Antivirus 9 work very nicely with XP SP2 and do not
exhibit this problem.
It would seem to me that a number of products designed as all-in-one
suites where you get a personal firewall, spam blocking, pop-up blocking,
and anti-virus, would cause problems with anything and should be avoided.
I've used Norton since they came out, and now Symantec Corp 9 on our
systems and clients systems and nothing has made it past them.
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