As an addendum to my post below, we also heavily restrict what the majority of our users can do on workstations. We only grant Admin privileges to Faculty/Staff after the fact when it is requested and they have good reason for it. This greatly reduces the number of malware issues we deal with and mitigates many others. The only caveat being that we also have to deal some complaints that people can't do whatever they want with "their" computer.
Stephen Bogdanski
Information Technology Center
College of Veterinary Medicine
Michigan State University
>>> Steve Bogdanski <[log in to unmask]> 8/4/2009 3:32 PM >>>
We seem to be having good results with a limited deployment of NOD32 (v4) and for systems that get really mucked up we usually run a combination of ComboFix and MalwareBytes. If those two don't get it, we just re-image the machine.
Stephen Bogdanski
Information Technology Center
College of Veterinary Medicine
Michigan State University
>>> "Charlot, Firmin" <[log in to unmask]> 8/4/2009 3:29 PM >>>
We have been using VIPRE for a few years and I must say that we have
been really happy with it.
Firm.
From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 3:26 PM
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Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] Depressing news
I've found the one-two punch of VIPRE and MalwareBytes to work pretty
well for me.
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Jack Kramer
Computer Systems Specialist
University Relations, Michigan State University
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From: STeve Andre' <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: STeve Andre' <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 14:27:39 -0400
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [MSUNAG] Depressing news
I just found out that the computer store no longer has the physical
copies of Webroot's anti-spyware/virus for sale. They are looking at
departmental stuff, if I got that right. Instead you can get copies
of Mcafee and Symantec. Ugh.
NOD32 has been failing me for a while now, and I've spent (wasted)
more time dealing with protection software. Webroot is pretty much
the winner, with Sophos and Kaspersky being good too.
--STeve Andre'
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