August 2005 — Features
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How to Keep Your Campus Safe from Infection
Local office: Woburn, MAPrice: $41.50
Virus samples: newvirus@kaspersky.com
Support: Russian and English, 24 hours a day: 800-803-2152 (I never could get through to support.)
Comments: No reboot required for install; nice, easy-to-use interface, nice options. This product also comes in a professional version for the advanced user. Great archive scanner prompts user for password on locked files. Didn’t update right away, but when I clicked on the update, it told me they were seven days old and updated. By far, the best Web site with the most information and an online scanner.
NOD32 and Kaspersky were the only programs that caught my viruses as I copied them into my VMware session, and when I highlighted the file with the mouse without opening them. This is definitely one of the best products out there, and I could not stop laughing as it squeals like a pig when viruses are detected.
Web site: www.trendmicro.com
Local office: Cupertino, CA
Price: $49.95 (includes firewall software)
Virus samples: virus_doctor@trendmicro.com
Support: 800-864-6027 (available weekdays, 5 am -5 pm PST)
File size: 38MB with firewall
(No evaluation version was availableI had to use a copy of the; product that was recently purchased— but soon abandoned— by a colleague.)
Comments: Nice pre-scan on the install; says it can detect spyware. Unfortunately, the program d'esn’t seem to detect much of anything, but manages to delete an entire archive without asking, even if just one infected file is found.
Web site: www.pandasoftware.com
Local office: Greendale, CA
Price: $49.95
Virus samples: virus@pandasoftware.com
Support: 818-543-6901
File size: 20MB
Comments: One of the slowest products tested, and it requires the most memory out of the programs tested. However, the program did perform fairly well, and the company representatives were responsive to my e-mails.
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