Antivirus 2009/2010/2012

[Elias824]

You could always go the more paranoid route and block any web traffic except what you need to keep your work running.

 

[mechBgon]

Since it's relevant to this discussion, here's an example of "malvertising" at work pushing this junk on users at normal websites: Fraudware pop-ups at Cleveland.com. Actually, we even had one at AnandTech.com once, for an early fraudware called "Spyware Cleaner."

 

[Canai]

Originally posted by: Chadder007
It seems to bypass Mcafee Enterprise and CounterSpy also.

Yep we've got Mcaffee Ent. running on the network here, yet I'm seeing this malware a lot. MBAM's been the best solution so far.

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: techmanc
I have used Firefox for years and it is definitely a safer browser that IE is. The few places is need IE for like some MS sites I can use the Firefox Addon IE Tab. There are a lot activex websites that IE is vulnerable to that its not funny. As a standalone solution for my unknowing customers I use Zone Alarm Security Suite and while it might slow there systems a bit it seem to offer the best protection as long as its configured properly.

until mozilla can give us an enterprise version, it's not going to cut it. I don't want to have to go out to 150 computers updating the machines every time a patch comes out. That and I don't want my users having full blow extension.

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: randomlinh

Originally posted by: techmanc
I have used Firefox for years and it is definitely a safer browser that IE is. The few places is need IE for like some MS sites I can use the Firefox Addon IE Tab. There are a lot activex websites that IE is vulnerable to that its not funny. As a standalone solution for my unknowing customers I use Zone Alarm Security Suite and while it might slow there systems a bit it seem to offer the best protection as long as its configured properly.

until mozilla can give us an enterprise version, it's not going to cut it. I don't want to have to go out to 150 computers updating the machines every time a patch comes out. That and I don't want my users having full blow extension.

Mozilla doesn't seem to be interested in an enterprise-friendly version. I can't figure them out. It can't be that tough to build a central management console, analogous to what's used to deploy/configure/enforce enterprise security software.

Where I used to be a sysadmin, we did go through FireFox Hell when the PHB ordained that FireFox must be installed. He was a rabid anti-Micro$oft crackpot whose long-term goal was to eventually convert all desktops to boot from a Linux CD-ROM, regardless of the employees' needs. As a result of the FireFox mandate, I lost many evenings to the manual after-hours maintenance of the fleet, especially when Mozilla released two or three updates in close succession.

There were a lot of things I liked about that job, but the PHB and his anti-Microsoft vendetta were too much. I eventually quit.

 

[imported_snikt]

I don't think Antivirus *whatever-year* is a problem on our network. I haven't heard any of the Help Desk guys report it. I guess the Blue Coat system the WAN guys are using is doing its job.

 

[JackBurton]

Kaspersky stops it dead in its tracks.

 

[zenguy]

Actually, It's not very doable for anything but the smallest of companies without extremely heavy use of Virtualization, Citrix, and similar solutions.

Even RedHat pulled out of the Corporate Desktop Market.

Even Linux Companies do not espouse Linux as a Desktop Standard for Corporations at this point. It does deserve a place in business, but not one to completely replace Windows.

Those with extensive experience know this.

Any "Consultant" trying to espouse otherwise likely follows this Philosophy....
http://despair.com/consulting.html