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I supported Toymods
Location: Perth
Registered: July 2004
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Re: Low overhead antivirus software.
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Tue, 13 September 2005 02:08
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VET is a consumer product. Its okay, its not that crash hot though.
But why would you pay $100 for VET which is really a Hyundai of Antivirus Software when you can get McAfee for like half that price which is the Rolls Royce of AV Products?
Go to http://www.yourasap.com and download the trial of McAfee Managed VirusScan ASAP. Its 30 Days free, If you like it then pay for the Subscription. Its like $50 per year for VScan + Desktop Firewall in a bundle. VET would still cost you $45 a year to renew as it is.
Just to give an indication of the overhead, MVS runs three processes, which for mine are also running the following memory bandwidth. McShield.exe (21,944kb), myAgtSvc.exe (5224kb),
myAgtTry.exe (3016kb). Total about 30MB. It does all that from one System tray agent icon though unlike Norton which sparks up 3 or 4 different tray icons.
I had VET, I converted after i saw the difference. There was so much crap VET didnt pick up i.e.
- VET Doesnt touch System Volume Information or any of your System Restore Files. Anything Locked, VET Wont Touch.
- VET Doesnt block malicious ActiveX and Javascript in realtime. It does sometimes, but not every time.
- McAfee DAT's are daily and pushed to you automatically, wheras VET sometimes takes up to a week to get a DAT downloaded and in place.
- VET has very limited customer support. Sure McAfee is deep in the wonderful outsourcing world of helpdesks to India like every other vendor, but at least there is a helpdesk.
- VET Doesnt give status reports based on virus activity and has no internal reporting function other than a log.
Give it a go, you wont be sorry!
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ta23 | Tue, 13 September 2005 08:32 |
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hamgatan | Tue, 13 September 2005 10:11 |
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ta23 | Tue, 13 September 2005 13:34 |
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