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Subject:

Re: AVG antivirus site license?

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Rob Neary <[log in to unmask]>

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MSU Network Administrators Group <[log in to unmask]>

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Thu, 11 Oct 2001 14:29:11 -0400

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Interestingly I've found their engine:

http://www.grisoft.com/html/us_techn.html

Works pretty well. I know of at least one site that had unpatched IIS that
had the Nimda worm blocked (in it's Email-attachment form) by AVG before any
updates really hit...

But I'll agree that you generally do get what you pay for... I run Computer
Associates InoculateIT product, and although the do come out with frequent
updates, it still wasn't aware of Nimda for almost a day.

        Rob Neary
        Desktop Support Coordinator & Windows Administration, MCSE
        Department of Physics and Astronomy
        125 Physics/Astronomy Building
        EMail: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Office: x32986

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Rieke [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 1:52 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: AVG antivirus site license?
>
> Someone in my unit got a license for our office. We used AVG
> on some computers up until a few weeks ago. It seemed to
> work OK. We didn't notice any problems with the operation of
> the program. You can set it up to have one computer serve
> definition files to clients and lock down settings on the clients.
>
> Our primary concern with AVG was that the virus definitions
> didn't come out frequently enough. The Grisoft update page
> says that "update files are released on a regular (mostly on
> monthly) basis." That match schedule matches what we
> experienced. We felt more vulnerable with the large time gap
> between the introduction of a virus and the release of an update file.
>
> Phil


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