[afnog] Antivirus for Academic Environments

[Seun Ojedeji]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Simon Vass <svass at etech.ug> wrote:

> Chris,
>
> To be honest my instinctive response, to AV questions is still just use
> Linux ;-)
>
> ++1

Regards

> Simon
>
>
>
>
> On 11/03/13 13:24, Chris Wilson wrote:
>
>> Hi Simon,
>>
>> On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Simon Vass wrote:
>>
>>  A friend of mine has blocked all USB Sticks on his desktops and
>>> allocated a few places where you can get them scanned using a Linux
>>> Terminal. More involved but very effective.
>>>
>>> Otherwise have has good experiences with both Kaspersky and AVG.
>>>
>>
>> I must recommend strongly against both of these:
>>
>> * Kaspersky has become an absolute resource hog in the last few years. It
>> now requires 1 GB of RAM and it brings every machine to a painful,
>> stick-forks-in-my-eyes crawl. I will not buy it again.
>>
>> * AVG does not but I have seen cases where a machine is clearly infected
>> and AVG does not detect it. Other AV products did in that case. I suspect
>> their database is not as good due to lack of money.
>>
>> I am currently using F-Secure for the last few months and I like it more
>> than Kaspersky. It feels light and fast and doesn't slow the machine down.
>> According to AV reviews there is a direct tradeoff between detection rate
>> and resource usage, which makes sense but is disappointing:
>>
>> http://www.av-comparatives.**org/ <http://www.av-comparatives.org/>
>>
>> Kaspersky's huge flashy graphics probably don't do it any favours on less
>> powerful machines. (AV-Comparatives use a fast machine with 4 GB RAM for
>> their benchmarks).
>>
>> ESET Nod32 has a similarly low impact on performance to F-secure, but a
>> much lower detection rate according to that site, so I wouldn't recommend
>> it.
>>
>> Cheers, Chris.
>>
>
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