Many thanks for the reply, Sir!
Ian Kenefick said:
nasties,
You couldn't be further from the truth, quite the opposite is true of
Symantec's response times. -
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/executive_tech/article.php/3316511
Take this as one example, there are many more!
That's interesting, but I think Symantec's share of the internet
security market earns them a lot of flak. It may be well deserved, have
to see.
Making new words are we
Pardon my crummy 6th grade Latin
them.
What? That's not true!
I read an article on the web somewhere to that effect, and it does seem
reasonable enough, the stuff that was coming out in the mid 90s
generally doesn't get back on the net anymore. The author's point was
it takes time to scan for a virus, and the more virae are scanned for,
the longer the operation takes. So they don't scan for those rarely
seen in the 'wild' anymore. To what extent the author was correct and
my understanding of the author's assertions is correct is dubious, true.
Why? There are far better and cheaper AV available.
Redundancy. Already paid for, and it's cheap after the ubiquitous
discounts. And I like the ad blocking, too.
Yes! but not all at the same time - no more then one resident product
simultaneously! The best and fastest way to find scan a file with
multiple engines is
www.virustotal.com
This is not a good idea. Many AV and firewalls run as services - you
can't disable these using MSconfig.
May be something to that, it's kind of hard to tell what's running and
where it comes from. Oh, yes, I know that System Information > System
Summary, etc. does list a lot of stuff, but checking all that out could
get to be work!
Far as I could tell msconfig dealt with it just fine, just hard to
remember what program was from which program set.
I'm reinstalling anyway, so I'll maybe see if I can do something towards
dealing with the services angle. I was hoping the necessity wouldn't
arise.
Back to the drawing board with your theories I'd say :-(
Notions, Mr. Kenefick, nothing more. I'm at a loss on how to deal with
malicious hackers, but I run an anti virus and a firewall whenever I
dialup.
So long as I'm reinstalling Windows Millenium anyway, I suppose I should
use System Information > System Summary, etc. to determine what programs
( or tasks ) are running under what conditions, and what else runs when
firewalls and anti virus programs, plug ins, alternative browsers, email
clients, etc. are instaled and run. Not a really optimum approach
because a malware could run and terminate in between my checks. Need
something that could check every few seconds, and make a log of what is
running. I mess around with BASIC a little, and it shouldn't be real
hard to compile a simplification.
File corruptions are also a concern. I use Sygate Personal Free
Firewall, and it cathes a lot of port scans. In between the possibility
of someone getting in, or visiting a malicious web page, there seem to
be substantial possibilities someone could mess a system up. I reckon
the md5 algorithm is the way to check this out. I'll have a linux
partition on the same disk, and use it to check my windows partitions
daily, I reckon.
These again are only notions, nothing more. But I'd be interested if
you know of any work already done along these lines. Thanks again.
