Flawed McAfee update paralyses corporate PCs

There isn't hardly a single week that goes by here without having to clean virues and/or adware off driver computers running McAfee or Norton.

Yup.

 

what antivirus/security do you recommend then Diesel? I'm running symantec small business.

 

That's sort of unrelated - it's not that the computers running McAfee were infected. Just there was a poorly tested update pushed out.

I'm certainly not a McAfee or Norton advocate - both I think are too bloated for their own good. I've run the gamut of AV programs and have found the new Microsoft Security Essentials to work as well as could be expected without it bothering you every day for an update or permission to run a scan or something.

Having a decent AV program is good but it's not insanely critical like some people make it out to be. If you don't play like an idiot on the net then you generally won't have problems.

 

I can't for the life of me figure out why so many businesses insist on using windows in the first place. If you want security and stability, Linux has Windows beat on every front. It's a heck of a lot easier to maintain.

 

Linux is only secure because it's not a target of hackers. Let it gain a large market share and it's faults will show through. Every years there is a computer security conference that hacks all the main operating systems, they can all be hacked. It's just not cost effective to hack Linux or OSx.

Mark

 

I like MS security essentials also, it works very well in the backround with a small footprint. In many test published in magazines and on the web, it's holding it's own.

Mark

 

That sounds like reason enough for me. I'm on a dedicated account, I have a customer in Wisconsin that uses iMacs. I asked him why. Security. If he wanted that, he could have just as easily installed a an Enterprise class Linux distro like Oracle or CentOS on his old PCs instead of investing in all new hardware. I think Linux's reputation of being hard to use is what keeps it out of the business world. Nothing could be further from the truth. Modern builds are pretty much "set it and forget it." The tech support industry probably has it in their best interest to keep them using Windows. Linux would put them out of business.