August 2005 — Features
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How to Keep Your Campus Safe from Infection
www.f-prot.comLocal office: Reykjavik, Iceland
Price: $29
Virus samples: viruslab@f-prot.com
Support: 354-540-7400 (Did not have the US presence I thought it did.)
File size: 3.15MB
Comments: Small and fast install, quick update (came with virus samples only a week old), but offered limited options. At testing, the definitions had not been updated in almost a month.
Web site: www.symantec.com
Local office: Cupertino, CA
Price: $49.95
Virus samples: avsubmit@symantec.com
Support: Free online; fee-based phone support
File size: 24MB
Comments: Limited support plan, very high resource usage after install, needs extensive updates and a reboot (a problem for dial-up users.) Has a built-in pre-scan during install. Detects spyware, but not the Trojans used to install them. Did not autoupdate; I had to do it manually, and the product required a reboot to be effective.
Web site: www.f-secure.com
Local office: San Jose, CA
Price: $64
Support: 408-938-6700 8am-6pm CST
File size: 25.1MB
Comments: Appears to consume a large amount of resources. Needed a reboot to work properly, but product did not indicate that was the case. Auto-updated a week later with no manual interaction required. Very fast scan, works very well.
Web site: www.bitdefender.com
Local office: Boca Raton, FL
Support: 561-620-8815
Price: $44.95
File size: 8.6MB
Comments: Nice package, however the software offers few options and was semiresource intensive.
Web site: www.nod32.com
Local office: San Diego, CA
Support: 619-437-7037 (6am-3pm PST; near 24/7 e-mail support)
Price: $39
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