Re: [OT now] RE: cygwin sshd will not run under McAfee VirusScan 8.0i

[Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray dot at>]

Dave Korn schrieb:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Michael Hipp
> > Sent: 19 November 2004 19:06
> > I thought I was the only one with that opinion of McNorton.
>   We are not alone!
>
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=norton+%2Bsucks
> "Results 1 - 10 of about 87,900 for norton +sucks"
>
> > If you simply must run AV, try something more civil like AVG. It at 
> > least as the virtue of mostly staying out of the way.

AVG or antivir.de

>   That is indeed what I almost always recommend to victims^Wusers^Wvictims
> of Norton's bugware, and I can't praise it highly enough.  Small, simple,
> unintrusive and effective.
>
>   Oh, and just to be absolutely clear: it's not just "Not-on" AV, it's
> absolutely *everything* Norton: their internet security package, their
> anti-spam stuff, their pc-health-monitoring stuff: the entire suite should
> be despised with deep prejudice.

indeed.

>   I regularly get thanked by ex-Norton-sufferers, whose machines I have
> removed it from and given them something decent like the AVG+ZA combination,
> and they say things like "Wow, my machine only takes a fraction of the time
> to startup it used to and everything it does is so much faster and smoother
> running...."

Somewhen in the nearer future clamav will have 
FindFirstChangeNotification support. ("on-access scanning")
Technically no major problem, just how to get the config compatible with 
Dazuko/Clamuko. It's even written by an antivir.de developer.
--
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

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