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Re: Low overhead antivirus software.

Tue, 13 September 2005 08:32

hamgatan wrote on Tue, 13 September 2005 12:08

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!

Very Happy

Disagree with a lot of what you said there...

VET isnt worth $100, if you paid that for it...you got ripped. We sell it for $50-$70 instore.

VET isnt the Hyundai of antivirus products, got voted no. 1 ahead of Nortons etc. in APC magazine as the best antivirus.

I regularly use VET at work to scan HDD's for viruses, it does scan system restore files and system volume information. VET does block Active scripts in realtime, VETs definitions are also automatic, although not sure how often they come out....I couldnt see it being a week.

Not sure about VET customer support...in all the time I have used VET (keeping in mind I use it on 100's of customer machines) I have never had to call customer support.

I also dont see a problem with having a log as a reporting function.

But anyway, VET still has my vote

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