[afnog] Antivirus for Academic Environments

Mon Mar 11 14:33:53 UTC 2013

Hi Chris,

I haven't played with F-Secure, but I've deployed NOD32 on a network
with ~300 nodes. It's effective, lightweight, and affordable. The
enterprise management and reporting utility is also very useful.

I would definitely recommend it.

Regards,
Kyle Spencer

> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 10:24:32 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Chris Wilson <chris+afnog at aptivate.org>
> To: Simon Vass <svass at etech.ug>
> Cc: "afnog at afnog.org" <afnog at afnog.org>
> Subject: Re: [afnog] Antivirus for Academic Environments
>
> 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/
>
> 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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> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:43:00 +0300
> From: Simon Vass <svass at etech.ug>
> To: Chris Wilson <chris+afnog at aptivate.org>
> Cc: "afnog at afnog.org" <afnog at afnog.org>
> Subject: Re: [afnog] Antivirus for Academic Environments
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> Chris,
>
> To be honest my instinctive response, to AV questions is still just use
> Linux ;-)
>
> 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/
>>
>> 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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> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:01:21 +0100
> From: Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com>
> To: Simon Vass <svass at etech.ug>
> Cc: "afnog at afnog.org" <afnog at afnog.org>
> Subject: Re: [afnog] Antivirus for Academic Environments
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>
> 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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