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Originally Posted by RWood
After the virus that rolled in here behind the wheel of a Mac truck through the Norton A/V shield, I can't bring myself to trust them again even though I still have the rights to the corporate license agreement for a few more years. (Long story about a client's requirements to work with them, they only lost about a third of their computers to the same Mac truck driving virus. I had current backups.)
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It's the fundamental problem with A/V: it can only catch what it has an electronic signature for. We got nailed at a former employer by as new one that wasn't in Symantec's A/V database yet.
We also got nailed by one that exploited a Windows vulnerability, and would not have bit if all systems had been fully patched. After that, management bit the bullet and turned on auto-update, but updates were served from our own WSUS server, so we could minimize the network bandwidth required, and block things like IE7 till there was a chance to determine if it was compatible with "mission critical" applications like our electronic timesheet system.
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Dennis