Comments on: What you are willing to pay for

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:33:38 +0000

FSecure doesn’t have all the KAV technologies and I don’t think that the free AV products were tested at AV comparatives (there are “profesional” versions of them that you pay for … avast, avira and avg have them ). As you said (in different words :P), computer viruses are like biological ones : they are known of after they infect hosts( in the 18th century we didn’t know about HIV ), so we may as well try to prevent than clean. Prevention is supposed to be a requirement for the user, which should have a more careful of the health of his computer as his own health ( considering the things that could be stolen or exploited off his computer ).

By: Cd-MaN

Cd-MaN — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:54:11 +0000

To clarify some things for anonymous: the users were running without admin rights, but the shares they used (where the executables were located) were mapped with read/write rights, because – supposedly – some programs didn’t run if they didn’t have write permissions.

I’m not really sure what the current status is. My impression was that their final plan was to install AV software on all the client and server machines. While this will solve their (current) problem, it is suboptimal in the sense that until the whole network is cleaned, clients might be blocked from running the software – for example in the case when a client has an AV software and the server doesn’t and the files on the server are infected.

Some of the alternatives we’ve offered were some registry settings to push to all the desktops to prevent programs running through autorun.inf, but supposedly “they have already done it”.

By: padraig

padraig — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:41:03 +0000

In my experience, about 1/2 of the people that work in information technology are unqualified.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:40:28 +0000

are they (the company you mentioned) protected against autorun-malware now or simple desinfected?

I bet you said it couldn't be happen if they they worked w/o admin rights.

They said it is easy to buy some software which install drivers and hook the windows instead to teach everyone security.