Trend Micro is an EXCELLENT program. The bottom line is that they released a bad update which, in turn, just about cost me my HDD to a format.

Lay a copy of Trend Micro on the table for $50 and I'll buy a dozen before I buy one copy of Norton or McAfee for $15.

I sold McAfee and Norton too long... I know better than to utilize them...

It's all a personal preference thing. All of them will have a problem here and there; no one is immune from viruses, spyware, and other hacks. No one.

RP

 

Just goin by what Ive heard. Of course, those were old versions, so maybe their new stuff is better.

As for me, I dont like Norton either. It came on my mom's Dell (with Internet Security and all that) and all it did was cause the laptop to not be able to access the internet constantly without settings being changed everytime you turned it on.

AVG is free, and I havent had any virus problems, so Ill stick with what works, just like everybody else here

 

RP,

Did you try disabling all the related services in safe mode and then rebooting? Just curious.

I use to think Norton was the best. Their last couple of versions have been resource hogs. I still use them but this is their last year on my system. Their products have really dived in quality and performance.

I use McAfee to secure my network at work. Never had an infection there which speaks volumes due to the type of users I have.

I've used AVG for the people who are too cheap to buy a AV program and it works ok.

The bottom line is they all basically detect 100% of in the Wild viruses. I've seen systems get infected with all the above mentioned. Sometimes its zips, lack of current updates, etc.

TM is next on my try out list for my personal PC.

BTW here are independent test results for AV programs:

AV test results

 

I'm not a big fan of McAfee at all! When I worked for a local ISP I was running McAfee at the house and the office had Norton. I would go around and update the offices definitions twice a week. then on the same day I would go home and update my McAfee. Norton would ussally have any where from 1-5 new defs. then when I got home McAfee wouldn't have any for a couple of weeks.

They say there are 200 new viruses that come out everyday... NO ONE will beable to keep thier Defs. up with that kind of pruduction. BUT Norton seems to spend much, much, more time trying to, than McAfee does.

 

McAfee releases an update weekly and during outbreaks releases extra dats whenever necessary. I've gotten updates a number of times in the same week. With their EPO server I never visit a workstation and it reports if a virus is detected and what machines aren't up to date.

Nothing is perfect but I'm quite satisfied with their enterprise software.

 

Thats true but my feelings are if they don't have the definition for it then how can it know if a certain virus is there or not. After comapring the 2 Home Editon vs Home Edition. on my small home wan/lan I get many more Defs. consistantly from Noton. So in theory it should beable to locate and identify many more potential threats.

Like we have all said, nothing is fool proof. If your on the net you already have many threats and malisous programs on your computer right this second regardless of what we use. The definitions just have not and may not be created for it in order for us to know that they are there. Until there is to many of them and they corrupt enough files. nothing beats MS System file checker, it is a techs best friend and the final line of defense. It tells you what files have been changed and when.

 

Hey RP-
Your bug hit the news today.
http://finance.myway.com/jsp/nw/nwdt...&date=20050424
Looks like you weren't the only one locked up by TrendMicro.

 

Ouch thats not going to be good for business for them!

Yet one main reason to not enable automatic updates! I want to know what is being installed so atleast I might have an idea of what has been added or changed recently if there is a problem or a conflict.

There will be some poor lazy I.T. that will go to go to work in the morning and wonder why all of his computers are down... He thought he had his Network set up good with little to low maintenince (sp?) by setting everything to get automatic updates.

 

I use this at work...

It's called AsAP... it's very handy. I track all of our office computers from my laptop... further, I can see who's updated and who is out of date. I really like it... Very handy for a small office like ours.

RP

 

Wow...

That's not good for the ole' stock. Glad I don't own any... LOL!

I've renabled my Trend Micro and, so far, so good.

 

That's what I ended up doing once I finally figured out that it was Trend Micro that was snaring all of my CPU.

RP

 

I might buy some mid week now though. Just because it is likely to drop as everyone loses faith and sales thiers.
Blue light special.
I'm sure they will do some PR to get the thier customers faith back. If I do buy, I sure hope that they do anyway.

 

For future reference you can check what those strange processes are by going to Process Library . This site will also tell you what those mysterious .dll's are.

And I agree with vader716. McAfee is the best but AVG will do.

 

Yep. I got this via email today...



They're trying to send out some love... lol...

RP

 

I can't find them on any of my tickers... However I don't know thier symbol si it's probably there somewhere. But I found this on AOL..