F-secure?

[Jeffrey]

Is F-secure a good antivirus program? I'm thinking about getting
F-secure internet security package.

Thanks

 

[null]

Is F-secure a good antivirus program? I'm thinking about getting
F-secure internet security package.

It has excellent detection and, I believe, generally positive user
ratings.


Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg

 

[Jari Lehtonen]

Is F-secure a good antivirus program? I'm thinking about getting
F-secure internet security package.

Thanks

It is very good and has won many AV-comparisons. Light on resources
and does not find unnecessary false positives. The only thing I miss
is ability to detect dialers, pornware etc. Normal virus and trojans
it finds 100%, and the definitions are updated daily.

Jari

 

[Buford T. Justice]

The 'Bible' says it is currently 50/50...

http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archives/products.xml?fsecure.xml

I am currently using NOD32 and like it quite a bit (
http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archives/products.xml?eset.xml ). None of
them are perfect. I would definately get Ad-aware (
http://www.ad-aware.com ).

BTJustice

 

[Jari Lehtonen]

The 'Bible' says it is currently 50/50...

http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archives/products.xml?fsecure.xml

Virusbulletin is telling ancient results too, and gives fail from
linux which F-secure does not support at all. All the important recent
results are 100%

Jari

 

[Jeffrey A. Setaro]

Virusbulletin is telling ancient results too, and gives fail from
linux which F-secure does not support at all. All the important recent
results are 100%

F-Secure's corporate products do support Linux.

--
Cheers-

Jeff Setaro
jasetaro <at> mags.net
http://people.mags.net/jasetaro/
PGP Key IDs DH/DSS: 0x5D41429D RSA: 0x599D2A99 New RSA: 0xA19EBD34

 

[Jari Lehtonen]

F-Secure's corporate products do support Linux.

Sorry, my mistake. But FS is very good (don't know about the newest
incarnations though)
Jari

 

[Buford T. Justice]

It failed most Windows tests in early 2000 for 5 times in a row.

BTJustice

 

[Jeffrey A. Setaro]

It failed most Windows tests in early 2000 for 5 times in a row.

Hmm... February 2000 was a test of DOS based scanners. FSAV for DOS
detected 100% of ItW boot sector viruses & 99.8% ItW file viruses... It
missed 3 samples of O97M/Tristate.C

April 2000: Windows NT - Passed.

July 2000: Windows 98 Scored 100% but missed out on a VB 100 award due
to a false positive.

November 2000: Windows NT - Scored 100% in the on-demand test & 99.9% in
the on access test. The only ItW miss by the on-access scanner was the
..DLL part of W32/MTX.

Shall I go on? Or have you figured out that the VB 100 results table by
itself is fairly misleading?

The VB 100 is a byproduct of Virus Bulletin's rather extensive
comparative reviews. Without reading the full comparative you're left
with an incomplete picture of a products performance.

I've been using F-Secure Anti-virus for roughly 5 years and have found
it to be a very reliable and capable anti-virus product.

--
Cheers-

Jeff Setaro
jasetaro <at> mags.net
http://people.mags.net/jasetaro/
PGP Key IDs DH/DSS: 0x5D41429D RSA: 0x599D2A99 New RSA: 0xA19EBD34

 

[Buford T. Justice]

What hard data do you have on those claims? I see that no where on the
VB100 website. Do you have a link?

BTJustice

 

[optikl]

What hard data do you have on those claims? I see that no where on the
VB100 website. Do you have a link?

BTJustice

You need to buy a subscription to Virus Bulletin if you expect to have
access to all of the details concerning their comparatives. Save your
money though and take Jeff's word for it.

 

[Jeffrey A. Setaro]

What hard data do you have on those claims?

Back issues of VB.

I see that no where on the
VB100 website. Do you have a link?

Look harder... The VB on-line archive has back issues from July 1989 to
August 2003 available in .PDF format.

See: <http://www.virusbtn.com/magazine/archives/index.xml>.

--
Cheers-

Jeff Setaro
jasetaro <at> mags.net
http://people.mags.net/jasetaro/
PGP Key IDs DH/DSS: 0x5D41429D RSA: 0x599D2A99 New RSA: 0xA19EBD34

 

[Buford T. Justice]

Cool.

Back issues of VB.


Look harder... The VB on-line archive has back issues from July 1989 to
August 2003 available in .PDF format.

See: <http://www.virusbtn.com/magazine/archives/index.xml>.

--
Cheers-

Jeff Setaro
jasetaro <at> mags.net
http://people.mags.net/jasetaro/
PGP Key IDs DH/DSS: 0x5D41429D RSA: 0x599D2A99 New RSA: 0xA19EBD34

 

[Jeffrey]

The 'Bible' says it is currently 50/50...

http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archives/products.xml?fsecure.xml

I am currently using NOD32 and like it quite a bit (
http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archives/products.xml?eset.xml ). None of
them are perfect. I would definately get Ad-aware (
http://www.ad-aware.com ).

BTJustice

OK, I just downloaded and installed F-secure.. I just needed something
"good enough" for virus detection since this is not my work computer.
One thing thats bothering me is that Spybot S&D is finding 65 Backweb
Lite registry entries. I'm not really sure which ones i can remove
because I read that F-secure uses Backweb and I don't want to mess
with those... Would it be safe to just leave them all alone?

thanks

 

[kurt wismer]

Jeffrey wrote:
[snip]

OK, I just downloaded and installed F-secure.. I just needed something
"good enough" for virus detection since this is not my work computer.
One thing thats bothering me is that Spybot S&D is finding 65 Backweb
Lite registry entries.

welcome to the wonderful world of trojan context sensitivity... some
folks use backweb for good things, others use it for bad things and
that's why spybot detects it...

I'm not really sure which ones i can remove
because I read that F-secure uses Backweb and I don't want to mess
with those... Would it be safe to just leave them all alone?

my guess is that if you want f-secure to continue functioning normally
you should leave them all...

 

[FromTheRafters]

OK, I just downloaded and installed F-secure.. I just needed something
"good enough" for virus detection since this is not my work computer.
One thing thats bothering me is that Spybot S&D is finding 65 Backweb
Lite registry entries. I'm not really sure which ones i can remove
because I read that F-secure uses Backweb and I don't want to mess
with those... Would it be safe to just leave them all alone?

Each occurence of backweb in the registry should have a unique number
associating it with the application using it (iirc). You should be able to
sort them all out using that identifier. You definitely don't want to allow
any spyware removal program to remove them unless you can be sure
that they know the difference between godd and bad Backweb apps.