I hope Symantec and McAfee (and now Microsoft) combine their
Anti-Spyware and Anti-Virus tools into one product, having multiple
scanners is cumbersome and slows down the system!
I hope Symantec and McAfee (and now Microsoft) combine their
Anti-Spyware and Anti-Virus tools into one product, having multiple
scanners is cumbersome and slows down the system!
From: "Jeffrey A. Setaro" <jasetaro@SPAM_ME_NOT_mags.net>
| On 27 Apr 2005 13:16:44 -0700, (e-mail address removed) wrote:
|
|
| Kaspersky Anti-virus has the ability to detect spyware. It's not
| enabled by default though.
|
| Nod32 Anti-virus version 2.5 (currently in beta testing) will include
| spyware detection.
|
| Just because McAfee & Norton don't do it doesn't mean it isn't being
| done.
McAfee can do it *if* you enable "Find poetentially unwanted programs".
Indeed.
But not to the degree that Ad-aware and SpyBot S&D will.
|| said:|> On 27 Apr 2005 13:16:44 -0700, (e-mail address removed) wrote:
|>
|>
|> Kaspersky Anti-virus has the ability to detect spyware. It's not
|> enabled by default though.
|>
|> Nod32 Anti-virus version 2.5 (currently in beta testing) will include
|> spyware detection.
|>
|> Just because McAfee & Norton don't do it doesn't mean it isn't being
|> done. |
"scan /program" is equivalent to checking "Find potentially unwanted programs" in the GUI.
It will find many forms of malware which includes adware such as; Gator, 180Solutions,
BetterInternet, etc...
However, an execution of Ad-awarre SE after the completion of the MCLS will find
*many* more files and objects that McAfee left behind.
From: <[email protected]>
| On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 23:00:23 GMT, "David H. Lipman"
|
| Indeed.
|
|
| How do you know? How do we know how KAV abd McAfee fare nowdays in
| this regard? Where are the comparatives?
|
| Be interesting to hear at least some anecdotal evidence from those who
| are paid to remove malware from machines. Are they now finding that
| KAV and/or McAfee find most all of the "controversialware" leaving
| practically nothing left for the spyware/adware scanners to find
| afterward? Or is the situation still as you suggest?
|
| Art
|
| http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
Art:
I use the McAfee Command Line Scanner (MCLS) a lot.
{ I also have created a program that can be used to FTP the McAfee SuperDAT, extract the
MCLS, extract the DAT files, run a scan which creates a HTML log file and at the end of the
scan will then display the log file in FireFox (or IE). This is similar, but more advanced
than your Sys-Up utility for Trend Sysclean. }
Using a command line such as...
SCAN.EXE /adl /unzip /WINMEM /sub /analyze /PANALYZE /STREAMS /clean /all /del /PROGRAM
/mime /HTML "c:\McAfee\ScanReport.HTML"
"scan /program" is equivalent to checking "Find potentially unwanted programs" in the GUI.
It will find many forms of malware which includes adware such as; Gator, 180Solutions,
BetterInternet, etc...
However, an execution of Ad-awarre SE after the completion of the MCLS will find
*many* more files and objects that McAfee left behind.
From: "Jeffrey A. Setaro" <jasetaro@SPAM_ME_NOT_mags.net>
| On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 03:15:42 GMT, "David H. Lipman"
|
| [Big Snip]
|| What type(s) of files? Are we talking about programmatic files or
| cookies which are simple text files?
|
| [Snip]
|
| Cheers-
|
| Jeff Setaro
| jasetaro@SPAM_ME_NOT_mags.net
| http://people.mags.net/jasetaro/
| PGP Key IDs DH/DSS: 0x5D41429D RSA: 0x599D2A99 New RSA: 0xA19EBD34
Hi Jeff:
I don't consider cookies a threat so they don't play a part in the discussion at all. I am
talking about executables.
BTW: If you remember back in Dec or so of 2003 I asked your advice on a dSLR. I got the
Digital Rebel 300D with a 18~55mm Canon lens and a 75~300mm Quantaray lens. Thanx for the
advice you provided me !