Re: Skype on client PCs

In article <utRJLjpFKHA.4316@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
lanwench@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
Not one of my clients who uses IM has ever gotten into trouble with it
(viruses/malware/whatnot). Not yet, anyway. I have good antivirus software,
and users don't generally have admin rights, which helps.


We work with a couple sorority groups, they have admin rights on all of
their computers (we can't control that, they own them) and they use all
different types of AV software.

IM is the most common way for them to get infected, second is email,
last is web browsing. I've yet to see a malware spread by file shares in
their environments.

The key thing I take from this "In the wild" environment is as follows:

AVG is next to worthless in any environment.

IM is a large threat to unsecured machines where people can't grasp the
idea of threats as a daily part of their lives

CA, Symantec Corporate Edition and SEPP protected machines have never
shown any signs of malware after multiple testing methods.

McAfee is a resource hog and does not provide enough warning that the
definitions are out of date - generally better than AVG, but not much.

Norton anything, before 2009, is a complete resource hog and will slow
any machine to the same performance as a MAC (friendly jab).

FireFox - significantly fewer issues for users that use FF vs IE.

Limited User account as standard - I have never had to clean a machine
with ANY AV + Limited User setup as the standard method, even if they
had IM installed.



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