Global Reproductive Health IT Support list

["Jojo Almario" <jalmario AT intrahealth.org>]

We have had some success using AntiVir from Avera.  We have had almost no success with any manner of Symantec or AVG products…well let me take that back.  The results with either of those have been too inconsistent to say that either Symantec or AVG are effective for US  in the field.

 

Once infected a cocktail of Combo-fix, Rogue Remover by Malware Bytes, and Cleanup 4.5.2 usually does a good cleanup job on Windows XP service pack 2 or 3.  Can’t say the same for Vista though.   

 

Jojo Almario

Intrahealth International Inc.

 

From: grhits-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:grhits-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Paul Blonsky
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 10:25 AM
To: Global Reproductive Health IT Support list
Subject: RE: [grhits] seeking recommendations re Anti-Virus and EndPointProtection

 

We have Trend Anti-Virus deployed globally and have had the same problem, it's missed several viruses in recent months (all in Africa and all variants of existing viruses). We've deployed Kaspersky and AVG(?!) selectively to squash the outbreaks and Trend has been very responsive when we've submitted samples, but the fact that we're having to submit samples is giving me pause. We've not decided to move away just yet, but we're keeping an eye on our solution. I don't think anything is bulletproof, but Kaspersky seems to be working well and I've used NOD32 before with good results. I don't recommend Trend at this point. I'd be interested to hear back on your results if you switch.

 

 

Paul Blonsky

IT Manager

Ipas

 

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From: grhits-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org on behalf of Jim Fennessey
Sent: Mon 10/13/2008 8:31 AM
To: grhits AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [grhits] seeking recommendations re Anti-Virus and EndPointProtection

Hello all ...

 

Recently, several of our country offices have reported that Symantec anti-virus has failed to detect viruses, and they've tried others that worked betterm including F-Secure and Kaspersky.  We're noew deploying some of those products on a case-by-case basis 

 

In this general area, we've also receioved recommendations for GFI EndPoint Protection, and for an appliance product called Cyberoam.  

 

We'd appreciate any comments or suggestions about good or bad experiences with these or other anti-malware solutions for country office settings.

 

Thanks!

 

JIm

 

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