Orchid XP v7 nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2008/01/02 13:17:
>> I´ve seen several instances where the AV, which is supposed to be 
>> protecting
>> your system, is actually causing more havoc than any virus. Most of these
>> instances have included products from Symantec or Trend Micro. I´m 
>> sorry to say
>> that these products, which are heavily marketed and generally trusted, 
>> are
>> failing in the most fundamental ways.
> 
> I've seen my share of problems with *Norton* products. [Those things 
> really do take over your entire PC! And fail to uninstall, frequently...]
> 
> However, Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition seems to be an entirely 
> different animal. If a corporate product popped up windows every 20 
> seconds saying "hey, you didn't do a full scan today" or "hey, shall I 
> update my definitions now?", it would be chucked out. *This* product is 
> about as unobtrusive as you could imagine for an AV product. I literally 
> hardly know it's there...
> 
> PS. Note that I have absolutely no *choice* in this matter anyway. :-S
> 
It's fundamentaly the same, only that the corporate edition is less visible when 
cloging the system. It just don't anoy you with all those useless popups. It 
does the full scans and updates on scedule, behind the scene without telling 
you, but it adds some entries in a log file.

The reasoning is that the home user "need" to know that the AV is there and 
doing it's job. OTOH, the business used need to NOT know that the AV is there, 
as it's the job of the IT department and system manager.

-- 
Alain
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Fundamentalism: Shit must be born again.

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