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Conor
191 on one I did yesterday. Sorted it out and stuck Firefox/Spybot S&D
on. Doubt I'll have anymore issues with it.
on. Doubt I'll have anymore issues with it.
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Art
I'm also a big fan of both those utils now that I'm using Win 2K. And
I'm in total agreement with a post you made in a different thread
concerning the use of more than one kind of backup/restore. I've
had good results with tests (trial runs) of XXCLONE in conjunction
with a removeable backup hard drive. I chose FAT32 for for Win
2K ... sorta keeping one foot back in the familiar while putting one
foot forward into the unfamiliar world of NT based OS. So far it's
worked out ok. I have some command line utils (DOS) I don't
want to abandon which only work with FAT.
Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
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optikl
Ok, I hadn't read your original post carefully.Shane said:
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David H. Lipman
From: "Peter Seiler" <[email protected]>
| Heather - 10.09.2005 05:26 :
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| ok, but why this language and fullquoting?
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| --
| by(e) PS
| spam will be killed
Because Figgs wanted to !
And that's that ! Now go to your room without supper.
| Heather - 10.09.2005 05:26 :
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| ok, but why this language and fullquoting?
|
| --
| by(e) PS
| spam will be killed
Because Figgs wanted to !
And that's that ! Now go to your room without supper.
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Heather
Aw, darn!! Here you are giving me your opinion on antivirus programs which
is a good thing......then you had to go and ruin it by picking apart my OE
configuration......Peter, Peter, Peter!! You have to be a Virgo!! (G)
Heather
is a good thing......then you had to go and ruin it by picking apart my OE
configuration......Peter, Peter, Peter!! You have to be a Virgo!! (G)
Heather
Peter Seiler said:
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Heather
David H. Lipman said:
LOL....and thanks for snipping, you guys. It's a long story and not one you
folks would be familiar with....but suffice it to say that he is a royal
PITA and fixated on Norton. And I immediately plonked him.
Hopefully his psychiatric meds are now working properly. If not, you will
soon see why I told him to piss off......and that was the polite version.
There.....that ought to give Peter something else to kvetch about. (G)
Cheers.....Heather
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Ghostown
Im not wanting to jump into a flame war, but I did want to toss in my two
pennies...
Depending on what type of environment you are running NAV, it could very
well slow things down considerably. On systems with resources that are at
the recommended minimums, you will see a noticible decline in performance.
Not every company has top of the line stuff. Currently, I do not install
NAV on any of our mobile users specifically because it is a resource hog and
when it finds something, it typically cannot clean or disinfect it. It does
a great job at sticking it in quarantine though, but thats not helping much.
Just because an AV review doesnt mention it, doesnt mean that Joe User isnt
experiencing it. I suspect those groups that test software such as AV are
probably running quite powerful systems, so I really wouldnt expect them to
get slowed down. I support almost a 1000 users in a public safety
environment which includes a considerable number of mobile data users
running 98SE with 32mb RAM. We have been running Norton Corporate for a
long time and were hit at least 3 times in the past 5 years with stuff that
it didnt stop. Code Red was one, Blaster was another and I dont recall the
other one. I detest Norton AV and instead utilize F-Prot for Windows as
well as AVG and Avast. None of those have failed me yet and they work on
many different configurations. Hope this helps.
pennies...
Depending on what type of environment you are running NAV, it could very
well slow things down considerably. On systems with resources that are at
the recommended minimums, you will see a noticible decline in performance.
Not every company has top of the line stuff. Currently, I do not install
NAV on any of our mobile users specifically because it is a resource hog and
when it finds something, it typically cannot clean or disinfect it. It does
a great job at sticking it in quarantine though, but thats not helping much.
Just because an AV review doesnt mention it, doesnt mean that Joe User isnt
experiencing it. I suspect those groups that test software such as AV are
probably running quite powerful systems, so I really wouldnt expect them to
get slowed down. I support almost a 1000 users in a public safety
environment which includes a considerable number of mobile data users
running 98SE with 32mb RAM. We have been running Norton Corporate for a
long time and were hit at least 3 times in the past 5 years with stuff that
it didnt stop. Code Red was one, Blaster was another and I dont recall the
other one. I detest Norton AV and instead utilize F-Prot for Windows as
well as AVG and Avast. None of those have failed me yet and they work on
many different configurations. Hope this helps.
C
* * Chas
| At my work, I try to keep tabs on how much spyware Ill find on users
systems
| when Im called about problems. Right now, the record is over 5,000
files
| found (Ad-Aware) on one PC. It took me almost 3 hours to clean his
system.
| It was so bad that Ad-Aware was freezing up so I ended up scanning and
| re-scanning, dumping about 500 files at a time until they were all
gone. In
| retrospect, I should have just re-imaged his machine, but I look at
things
| like this as a lesson learned for the user. The whole time Im
cleaning his
| system, he isnt able to work. If he isnt able to work, his boss gets
upset.
| I make sure that everyone there knows why the system was polluted. I
tried
| introducing Firefox onto our systems, but our 'in charge' IT people
said
| that it wasnt going to be supported by us so out the window it went.
Oh
| well, I guess its job security.
|
I visited my niece last year, a day after she had Comcast cable
installed. She asked me to look at her computer. Her 9 year old daughter
was surfing the net and the PC started acting "funny".
I installed AdAware, SpyBot, F-Prot DOS and several other programs. I
found 127MB of hard core porn that had just been D/L and I stopped
counting at 27 hijackers. I worked on it for 3 hours to clean out all of
the junk. It looked like this PC was being turned into a porn site
zombie!
This all happened on a system that was running an automatically updated
corporate version of McAfee AV and firewall which was a mandatory
requirement of her husband's employer for him to be able to log in to
check company E-mail from home. They were running WinME.
Chas.
systems
| when Im called about problems. Right now, the record is over 5,000
files
| found (Ad-Aware) on one PC. It took me almost 3 hours to clean his
system.
| It was so bad that Ad-Aware was freezing up so I ended up scanning and
| re-scanning, dumping about 500 files at a time until they were all
gone. In
| retrospect, I should have just re-imaged his machine, but I look at
things
| like this as a lesson learned for the user. The whole time Im
cleaning his
| system, he isnt able to work. If he isnt able to work, his boss gets
upset.
| I make sure that everyone there knows why the system was polluted. I
tried
| introducing Firefox onto our systems, but our 'in charge' IT people
said
| that it wasnt going to be supported by us so out the window it went.
Oh
| well, I guess its job security.
|
I visited my niece last year, a day after she had Comcast cable
installed. She asked me to look at her computer. Her 9 year old daughter
was surfing the net and the PC started acting "funny".
I installed AdAware, SpyBot, F-Prot DOS and several other programs. I
found 127MB of hard core porn that had just been D/L and I stopped
counting at 27 hijackers. I worked on it for 3 hours to clean out all of
the junk. It looked like this PC was being turned into a porn site
zombie!
This all happened on a system that was running an automatically updated
corporate version of McAfee AV and firewall which was a mandatory
requirement of her husband's employer for him to be able to log in to
check company E-mail from home. They were running WinME.
Chas.
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Buffalo
Donny Broome said:
Well Donny, why don't you look here and see how poorly AVG really performs and
how good Norton does.
http://www.av-comparatives.org/
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Larry Sabo
[snip]
Sorry to butt in here but there's no need for a batch job. The latest
version with AutoBackup incorporates a switch to make it easy. Just
add /day:7 to the command line* and it keeps the backups made over the
last 7 days. Seems to just keep one per day, but I could be wrong.
I found this so helpful, I thought it justified barging into the
middle of this thread to mention it.
)
Cheers,
Larry
* i.e., right-click the ERUNTAutoBackup shortcut in
Start\Programs\Startup and append "/days:7" without the quotes.
[snip]
Sorry to butt in here but there's no need for a batch job. The latest
version with AutoBackup incorporates a switch to make it easy. Just
add /day:7 to the command line* and it keeps the backups made over the
last 7 days. Seems to just keep one per day, but I could be wrong.
I found this so helpful, I thought it justified barging into the
middle of this thread to mention it.
)Cheers,
Larry
* i.e., right-click the ERUNTAutoBackup shortcut in
Start\Programs\Startup and append "/days:7" without the quotes.
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Shane
Larry said:
Yes, so I see. And yes, according to the readme it only makes one backup per
day by default.
I found this so helpful, I thought it justified barging into the
middle of this thread to mention it.
I'm glad you did - though I'll continue to use my batch, not least because I
execute other stuff once a day at Startup using it, eg backup the firewall
config files, run Empty Temp Folders, delete the ebooks and PrintMe folders
etc (I use the same batch in 9x too, obviously skipping the Erunt part of
it).
Cheers,
Shane
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Shane
Art said:
I've downloaded XXCLONE and will try it myself soon. I also note there's a
plugin for it for Bart's PE (something I've neglected of late!).
Shane