We are also running Norton AV here and I had to install it as a prerequisite
to plugging my G5 into the network. I've had nothing but bad experiences
with it and it crashes enough to be a very ineffective AV solution. Policy
wise I imagine it's a requirement for a number of people, how effective it
may or may not be doesn't generally factor in as long as IA can check that
box on their sheet. From a security point of view I can actually point out a
number of policies that are actually less effective then other best
practices but then that's a whole other story.
I have also heard some bad things about VireX so I don't know what the best
answer is to the OSX AV requirement.
- Brian
On 5/4/05 7:53 PM, "Rex Sanders" <email@hidden> wrote:
> We're using Symantec/Norton antivirus on Macs because that's the USGS
> standard. But on my desktop, I've turned down the scanning to a very
> infrequent interval so it doesn't interfere with my work. Even with daily
> scans starting at 2 am, many mornings at 8:30 am I found my Mac bogged down
> (~100% CPU utilization).
>
> One option I wish AV vendors would offer - stop scanning Macs for Windows
> viruses! If your neighborhood Windows computers are running current AV
> software, you can't do much damage forwarding an infected
> Word/Excel/Powerpoint file. If Mac AV software scanned only for ~100 Mac
> viruses instead of ~100,000 Windows viruses, scans should go *much* faster,
> and avoid other problems. I've had Symantec delete Eudora mail files with
> hundreds of messages after finding something that looked like (but wasn't)
> a Windows virus. Not good.
>
> -- Rex
>
> At 5:07 PM -0600 5/4/05, Michael Pike wrote:
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>> As we replace windows machines with Mac workstations the question has
>> come up about virus protection. We can always hope OS X will be
>> virus free, but as word gets out the GOVT is using them some "fight
>> the power" hacker will probably write one.
>>
>> Not to mention we still share the same word and excel docs with the
>> windows users which can get viruses.
>>
>> Any recommendations on what would be a good platform to roll out?
>> I'd like one that isn't going to kill performance, and must be
>> compatible with Tiger.
>>
>> Virex has been very poor, terrible features and causes more problems
>> than it's worth. Nortons receives the worst rating of all the
>> scanners, and makes the system slow and somewhat unreliable.
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