[RTC List] Choice of antivirus protection

[John Hauser]

john, thanks for the mention of trackmenot.
i routinely install adblock plus and noscript addons to any new
installation of firefox.
it looks like i'll be adding trackmenot to that list.

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 3:50 PM, John McBrearty
<john.mcbrearty at humboldt.edu> wrote:
> Pat, I agree.  That's why I said that my message was "slightly tangential"
> to what Chris actually asked about.
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> But I wonder how many people, in the article's words "Don't settle on just
> one."
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> I myself purchased and use both Symantec and eEye Blink on my personal
> machine.  Each has its strengths.  I also use some web privacy tools, such
> as the TrackMeNot search obfuscator add-on in Firefox.
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> John
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> From: Pat Bitton [mailto:pat_bitton at eurestopartners.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 2:16 PM
> To: 'John McBrearty'; list at redwoodtech.org
> Subject: RE: [RTC List] Choice of antivirus protection
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> Interesting approach - however, most of the virus and other malware problems
> occur because users *don't know* when software is questionable - or because
> the infection/hack happens without any user interaction - so it's debatable
> how useful such a service would be in the real world.
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> Pat Bitton
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> From: list-bounces at redwoodtech.org [mailto:list-bounces at redwoodtech.org] On
> Behalf Of John McBrearty
> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 1:56 PM
> To: list at redwoodtech.org
> Subject: Re: [RTC List] Choice of antivirus protection
>
> Chris,
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> A somewhat belated (and slightly tangential) response to your query, but I
> happened to see this today in a newsletter from the Chronicle of Higher
> Education:
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> Hey, Virus, Get Off of My Cloud
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> Having a hard time choosing which antivirus program to use? Researchers at
> the University of Michigan have a suggestion: Don't settle on just one.
> Computer scientists at the institution have developed a new service, called
> CloudAV, that lets computer users send questionable software off to a
> separate server--where a dozen antivirus programs and behavioral-detection
> tools decide whether the material is safe or corrupted. CloudAV takes its
> name from "cloud computing," a term used loosely to describe technology
> services conducted through an online network, not through software native to
> a particular user's machine. Why rely on the cloud if you've already got an
> antivirus tool sitting on your own computer? Well, as Ars Technica points
> out, virus-blockers use different methods to pick up on new malware, so "the
> best software on one day may not hold the title on the next." A typical
> antivirus program, acting by itself, might let plenty of malicious software
> slip through the cracks, but CloudAV spotted 98 percent of the viruses
> submitted to it, the researchers say.--Brock Read
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>
> John
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> From: list-bounces at redwoodtech.org [mailto:list-bounces at redwoodtech.org] On
> Behalf Of CrawfordCA at aol.com
> Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 11:58 AM
> To: list at redwoodtech.org
> Subject: [RTC List] Choice of antivirus protection
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> Greetings all  ...
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> I'd like to start a thread about different choices for antivirus protection
> on your Windows-based desktop or laptop computers. Long ago, I used Norton
> (from Symantec), then I switched to McAfee for a number of years, and now
> I'm looking for a better replacement.
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> To get things rolling, I wrote a blog posting on this topic in May when I
> dumped McAfee and went shopping for substitute protection:
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> http://www.tsblogs.com/techblog/2008/05/shopping_for_antivirus_softwar.html
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> I am currently using a trial version of Microsoft's Live OneCare, that has
> too many flaws to keep as a long term solution.
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> Any tips or recommendations are welcome, except for gratuitous gloating over
> having chosen Mac or Linux over the evil empire (Microsoft). Thanks for your
> consideration.
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> Chris Crawford
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