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Anti Virus

Anti Virus

Anti Virus

(OP)
I recall a few topics talking bout Norton and McAfee anti virus.  Does one have more issues with SW over the other, or are both relatively safe?

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RE: Anti Virus

I had problems with Norton and SW2000. Switched to Panda and have had no problems since. Have never tried McAfee.

cheers

RE: Anti Virus

I use McAfee on my home system.  I had an older version that would alert me every time I ran SolidWorks that it had encounter suspicious script.  The new version of McAfee doesn't do that.  I haven't had any other issues.  I didn't remove it from member when I installed SolidWorks 2005 on it, but 2007 seems to be more fragile, so I don't know if the will be issues when I decide to install 2007.

Matt
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
sw.fcsuper.com
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group

RE: Anti Virus

The installation notes for 08 Beta recommended disabling McAfee because it recognised some installation files as being infected and removed them.

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RE: Anti Virus

(OP)
I was just checking because our corporate offices are switching from Norton to McAfee site-wide, and I'm sure they didn't consider some implications of that move.

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RE: Anti Virus

Hmmm, Norton to McAfee ... "Out of the frying pan ..."

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RE: Anti Virus

I have had issues with both, but more so with Norton.

Chris
SolidWorks 07 4.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 04-21-07)

RE: Anti Virus

In the past, I would've said moving to McAfee is crazy talk, but I really like the new package.  Of course, I have the suite, which a ton of the extra tools, and it is on my home system.

Has anyone been at a cooporation that is using an alternative software, like AVG?

Matt
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
sw.fcsuper.com
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group

RE: Anti Virus

I have not used it.

Chris
SolidWorks 07 4.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 04-21-07)

RE: Anti Virus

I use the free version of AVG at home and "Panda Internet Security 2007" at work.

cheers

RE: Anti Virus

I'm using Avast for anti-virus and the free ZoneAlarm firewall here.  (Not that I'm exactly a corporate environment or anything.)  I've had subscriptions to both Norton and McAfee and swore to myself I'd never do that again.  Norton hits your system extremely hard with RAM usage (and lots of other issues) and McAfee would pop up re-subscription notices every (literally) ten seconds once it expired.  There was no way to shut that off.  Worst interface ever.

Maybe they've changed.  It won't matter to me, since they've both burned their bridges.

By the way, one reason I'm using Avast is because I can perform a virus scan outside of the Windows environment--which means if a virus/trojan/worm/whatever is found, I can much more likely remove it.  Also, it scans everything in real time--so things tend not ever to get into my system (I've never had a system scan with a find--it's always caught on the way in).  Plus, it tests smarter than almost any other AV package and is quite reasonable.

Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all.  And awe transcends reason.

RE: Anti Virus


We have used the licensed version of AVG on our server and all workstations for about two years and have never had any problems, even when I unintentionally did a SW install with it running. The only thing to do is to make sure that it's scheduled to do its scans after we've all gone home otherwise it'll slow things to a crawl!

Trevor Clarke. (R & D) Scientific Instruments.Somerset. UK

SW2007x64 SP3.0 Pentium P4 3.6Ghz, 4Gb Ram ATI FireGL V7100 Driver: 8.323.0.0
SW2007x32 SP4.0 Pentium P4 3.6Ghz, 2Gb Ram NVIDIA Quadro FX 500 Driver: 6.14.10.7756

RE: Anti Virus

What Jeff wrote about McAfee's "pop up re-subscription notices " is still true ... very annoying. But, I have not seen these notices from the business version.
Norton searches for updates daily, when it finds an update, it runs it, then sometimes decides it doesn't want Outlook to work anymore and tell you there are errors with your security.

Chris
SolidWorks 07 4.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 04-21-07)

RE: Anti Virus

I used to have Norton on one of my home computer and it became extremely slow. I removed Norton, installed Avast and speed is back to normal. Same as Jeff, I decided never buy Norton again. Their 2003 version was very good but every new version since then is worse than the one before.

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