elboricua
El Subestimado
Premium
join:2001-08-12
Bronx, NY
| I was wondering when they were going to jump in
Symantec AV 9.0 Corporate has antispyware capabilities. Not very good but they are there. Just like this beta version it fails to capture all spyware. also at least with the SAV 9.0 it will remove the files in questions but not the associated registry/startup entries. I was wondering when Symantec was going to give their own separate client a whirl.
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BillDCatt
@mi.ch | Amateurish
Even free products can handle Xupiter and disable the messenger service. This really isn't acceptable even in the beta stage. |
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gatzdon
join:2002-10-25
Lake Zurich, IL
| said by BillDCatt:
Even free products can handle Xupiter and disable the messenger service. This really isn't acceptable even in the beta stage.
I believe the distinction here is not that it doesn't disable the messenger service, but rather that it actually enables it.
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diehardspeed
Premium
join:2003-05-14
Salt Lake City, UT
| Stop the Messenger Service? Not me!
I use that service all the time to alert me of happenings on MY network and Symantec is one of the products that makes good use of the messenger service. Also my APC units send out a msg whenever there is a power spike or outage. There are various other apps I use that take use of the messenger service as well.
AFAIK 99% of ISP's now block that traffic in there routers so the spamming has stopped. For that matter I have not seen a Messenger Spam for about 4 years.
Only time you would want to disable it was if you had a direct connect to the net and no router/firewall and/or ISP that blocks MS Ports.
Side note.. MS Anti-Spyware tells you the service is enabled and asks if you want to disable it giving you a description of what it is and does
Symantec should at least give the same type of warning.
The Xupiter thing is kind of sad though  |
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Upidstay
@204.251.x.x
| Spyware
With Spybot Search and Destroy and Adaware, along with (to an extent) Microsoft Antispyware doing a fairly good job of tackling spyware it is difficult for me to justify using anything else, and they are completely free. I thought the windows xp patch at windows update should had fixed the messenger service bug long ago |
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kpatz
MY HEAD A SPLODE
Premium
join:2003-06-13
Manchester, NH
| reply to diehardspeed
Re: Stop the Messenger Service? Not me!
said by diehardspeed  :I use that service all the time to alert me of happenings on MY network and Symantec is one of the products that makes good use of the messenger service. Also my APC units send out a msg whenever there is a power spike or outage. There are various other apps I use that take use of the messenger service as well. AFAIK the corporate Symantec products are the only ones that use the messenger service. And in a corporate environment, the messenger service is useful. But in a home environment, especially in a single-PC household with no router or firewall, there's no need for it at all. Why a consumer (not corporate) version of a Symantec product would want to use the messenger service is beyond me. It's not like it needs to send messages from a server to a client.
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markwp2001
Spreadhead
Premium
join:2002-05-25
Long Beach, MS | Try this ....
Using SpyWareBlaster prevents damn near all spyware from ever getting on your machine. Great little program, free also, from javacool.
Mark
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Minvaren
Premium
join:2001-07-26
Houston, TX
clubs:
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Re: I was wondering when they were going to jump i
I agree, it can be an alert to if a certain machine on the network may need some "TLC" in a corporate environment.
So far, though, it's been seemingly-random as to which files get marked for deletion, and which are skipped. Either way, it helps out some. |
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a
@qwest.net | reply to elboricua
Re: I was wondering when they were going to jump in
symantec needs to stick with virus protection & let microsoft handle the spyware removal. |
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tbone106
join:2004-02-03
Lake Zurich, IL
| reply to Upidstay
Re: Spyware
Cause having a managed application is what corporations are looking for.
Good or bad, I can configure my symantec copr version on the fly and have the changes pushed/pulled to other servers as well as clients.
Until you can do this with other applications, forgettaboutit. |
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Tech-2005
@pacbell.n
| reply to markwp2001
Re: Try this ....
Yes, Spywareblaster is a great free little program that uses very few system resources. You do have to buy the paid for version to get automatic updates though.
This is what I run an it works well:
Spy Sweeper, MS Anti-spyware (free), McAfee AS, Spybot (free), Spywareblaster (free), Ad-Aware (free). I have Norton AV 2003 and Zone Alarm Pro firewall version 5.5x with mobile code control enabled (it is required to manually check and approve any web site that wants to run any scripting code) & privacy settings set high. I also use the latest Firefox browser 99% of the time for even more security. I have an AMD Athlon XP 2600+ with 512MB DDR and with all those programs running in the background it runs fast and smooth even with games.
I haven't seen much in the way of spyware for the past year. Once in a while MS anti-spyware or Spy Sweeper pops up to alert me of a favorites or start-up change. MS, Spy Sweeper and McAfee AS all pulls crap off my system soon after installation last year and that was the end of most issues. I do still run Ad-Aware and Spybot from time to time just in case. |
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rdiedrich
Premium
join:2002-11-25
Mchenry, IL
clubs:
| reply to tbone106
Re: Spyware
I was at a seminar today held by trend micro. they have a new multi-layer solution coming out in June that looks to be a real solid solution on Spyware and other grayware. You can even tweak the config to allow certain apps that some people just can't live without (IE: Weather type apps that piss me off). Anyhow look for Trend Micro to make some big clout in the market very soon the new product looks very good!!
_-Rdiedrich-_ |
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madmatt5
join:2002-04-06
Citrus Heights, CA
1 edit | reply to tbone106
Better late than never I suppose...
We use Corporate 9.0 on 50K+ PC's and have been asking Symantec for an anti-spyware app literally for several years. We finally had to go with someone else (Spysweeper) a few months back...  |
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yengec
join:2000-03-24
Boca Raton, FL
| reply to Tech-2005
Re: Try this ....
Does anyone know when Corporate edition 10 is coming out?
I heard it was due out yesterday, but Symantec's website is still preaching v9...
Danny
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xpc2600
join:2004-05-14
San Diego, CA | is out already for corp customers |
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joako
Premium
join:2000-09-07
/dev/null
 ·AT&T U-Verse
| said by xpc2600 :is out already for corp customers You'r kidding, right? I just finished deplaying S.A.V 9.0 to about 300 machines.
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Nerdtalker
Working Hard, Or Hardly Working?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-02-18
Tucson, AZ
clubs:
| reply to elboricua
Re: I was wondering when they were going to jump i
Even the consumer versions of Norton AVs have had "anti-spyware" functionality since NAV 2004.
I don't blame them for wanting to capitalize on the growing antispyware market. |
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ArchAngel21x
MacFan Pro
Premium
join:2001-10-28
Lincoln, NE | Does this mean than NAV will no longer eliminate spyware? |
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Nerdtalker
Working Hard, Or Hardly Working?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-02-18
Tucson, AZ
clubs: | It probably still will, although not as good as their super-duper anti-spyware program.  |
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kingsims
join:2004-09-11
10054
| reply to joako
Re: Try this ....
it has the manual for it and all the release notes on there offical ftp  so yea you just got wasted
»ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_···rp/10.0/ |
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