Hi there,
I'm not a particular fan of Norton, and McAfee support seem to be almost
impossible to talk to, so we are currently looking at alternative
firewall/anti-virus security suites. I was wondering if anyone knows of
any reliable reviews of the alternatives? It's for a small business, so
I'm not limited to free software. One review on the web had PC-Cillin as
their number one and Panda as their second best (Norton and McAfee were
way down the list), are people generally impressed with both of these?
After glancing through previous messages on this newsgroup, not much has
been mentioned about them?

Thanks for any advice, Jim.

Jim Kennedy wrote:

> I'm not a particular fan of Norton, and McAfee support seem to be almost
> impossible to talk to, so we are currently looking at alternative
> firewall/anti-virus security suites. I was wondering if anyone knows of
> any reliable reviews of the alternatives? It's for a small business, so
> I'm not limited to free software. One review on the web had PC-Cillin as
> their number one and Panda as their second best (Norton and McAfee were
> way down the list), are people generally impressed with both of these?
> After glancing through previous messages on this newsgroup, not much has
> been mentioned about them?

I can't point you to any review. What I can tell you about Panda though
is that it removes detected viruses automatically, and there is no way
to keep it from doing that (at least I found no way). This is not as
great as it may seem at first glance if you consider the possibility of
false alarms and if you like to control yourself what goes in and out of
your computer.
By the way, McAfee 8 seems to do that too. I hope that's not becoming a
new trend after HTML interfaces.

"Jim Kennedy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:ca46q0$vqk$(E-Mail Removed)...
: Hi there,
: I'm not a particular fan of Norton, and McAfee support seem to be almost
: impossible to talk to, so we are currently looking at alternative
: firewall/anti-virus security suites. I was wondering if anyone knows of
: any reliable reviews of the alternatives? It's for a small business, so
: I'm not limited to free software. One review on the web had PC-Cillin as
: their number one and Panda as their second best (Norton and McAfee were
: way down the list), are people generally impressed with both of these?
: After glancing through previous messages on this newsgroup, not much has
: been mentioned about them?
:
: Thanks for any advice, Jim.


For a network I use Symantec antivirus CE (is not the same as Norton AV),
and it does great, no problems at all. The part I like is that from your
workstation you can deploy it, monitor it and push updates/scans.

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 14:18:59 +0200, Frederic Bonroy
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Jim Kennedy wrote:
>
>> I'm not a particular fan of Norton, and McAfee support seem to be almost
>> impossible to talk to, so we are currently looking at alternative
>> firewall/anti-virus security suites. I was wondering if anyone knows of
>> any reliable reviews of the alternatives? It's for a small business, so
>> I'm not limited to free software. One review on the web had PC-Cillin as
>> their number one and Panda as their second best (Norton and McAfee were
>> way down the list), are people generally impressed with both of these?
>> After glancing through previous messages on this newsgroup, not much has
>> been mentioned about them?
>
>I can't point you to any review. What I can tell you about Panda though
>is that it removes detected viruses automatically, and there is no way
>to keep it from doing that (at least I found no way). This is not as
>great as it may seem at first glance if you consider the possibility of
>false alarms and if you like to control yourself what goes in and out of
>your computer.
>By the way, McAfee 8 seems to do that too. I hope that's not becoming a
>new trend after HTML interfaces.

Maybe it's time for the better scanners to alert on Panda and McAfee 8
as "potentially destructive program" Of course, it's a rash
assumption to make that the latest versions of any av qualify to be
placed in the set of "better" scanners.


Art
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"Jim Kennedy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:ca46q0$vqk$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi there,
> I'm not a particular fan of Norton, and McAfee support seem to be almost
> impossible to talk to, so we are currently looking at alternative
> firewall/anti-virus security suites. I was wondering if anyone knows of
> any reliable reviews of the alternatives? It's for a small business, so
> I'm not limited to free software. One review on the web had PC-Cillin as
> their number one and Panda as their second best (Norton and McAfee were
> way down the list), are people generally impressed with both of these?
> After glancing through previous messages on this newsgroup, not much has
> been mentioned about them?

Panda apparently installs a couple of files (imscan.dll and pav.zip) that
draw false hits from Avast. I don't know which program has the problem but
you should be aware of it.

William W. Plummer wrote:

> Panda apparently installs a couple of files (imscan.dll and pav.zip) that
> draw false hits from Avast. I don't know which program has the problem but
> you should be aware of it.

If I remember correctly AntiVir also alerts on those files. Panda is
probably to blame because it doesn't encrypt its files properly.

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> Maybe it's time for the better scanners to alert on Panda and McAfee 8
> as "potentially destructive program" Of course, it's a rash
> assumption to make that the latest versions of any av qualify to be
> placed in the set of "better" scanners.

As far as I am concerned, Windows AV programs are shitware. It's a pity
that good engines like McAfee's have to linger under a pile of
ill-conceived and badly programmed bloat.

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 12:03:28 +0100, Jim Kennedy
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Hi there,
>I'm not a particular fan of Norton, and McAfee support seem to be almost
>impossible to talk to, so we are currently looking at alternative
>firewall/anti-virus security suites. I was wondering if anyone knows of
>any reliable reviews of the alternatives? It's for a small business, so
>I'm not limited to free software. One review on the web had PC-Cillin as
>their number one and Panda as their second best (Norton and McAfee were
>way down the list), are people generally impressed with both of these?
>After glancing through previous messages on this newsgroup, not much has
>been mentioned about them?
>
>Thanks for any advice, Jim.

The 2500+ head company where I work uses Panda,.. that is how I knew
about it's existance. Panda is good if you run a park with a mingle of
newer AND older PC's cos Panda keeps running smooth on low
resources... At home I use Panda Platinum on my old PC & Norton suite
on my P4... all behind a Linksys router with additional firewall. See
my site for a revieuw:
http://www.nondisputandum.com/html/a..._firewall.html
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"Frederic Bonroy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> William W. Plummer wrote:
>
>> Panda apparently installs a couple of files (imscan.dll and pav.zip) that
>> draw false hits from Avast. I don't know which program has the problem
>> but
>> you should be aware of it.
>
> If I remember correctly AntiVir also alerts on those files. Panda is
> probably to blame because it doesn't encrypt its files properly.

I am now a big fan of Kaspersky.it seems to catch everything and doesn't hog
down your system like Norton or McCrappe or Panda..