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RE: antivirus comparison

Subject: RE: antivirus comparison
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:44:49 -0600
This statement is incorrect.  I manage 2500 Symantec clients in version
8 and 9 and neither requires local admin to install, function, or
update.

Sincerely-
Abb

PS- Apologies for the tardiness of this reply.

-----Original Message-----
From: gerald [mailto:geraldf@westernsaw.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 3:32 PM
To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: antivirus comparison

Just one note on Norton...Once they released their A-V product that
required
any logged in user to be a local administrator in order to update the
virus
definitions, they immediately became persona non grata.  

In my opinion, to not want to spend the R&D dollars necessary to have
the
program achieve proper registry permissions in order to update without
exposing a HUGE security risk is inexcusable for a security company.
Nor
did they announce this right up front.  We trustfully bought the product
before we found out and threw it out.   

They have clearly shown that they value the corporate bottom-line over
the
customer's safety....ergo as to A-V comparison, we start with
ABN..."Anything But Norton".  We wont easily forget how we got taken!


IT dir 
Western Saw Inc



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