ESET Nod32 and I swear by it.
Not bothered by the review mentioned about memory usage.
I don't get slow downs or anything like it. Don't have infections and it's by far the best.
I've used it easy 8-9 years and I cannot tell you the last time I had a virus.
The amount of PC's from clients (outside of forums stuff I mean now) which I've had to repair because they use cheap, or free antivirus software, is simply unreal.
Anyone using FREE AVG or anything like that, may as well use the PC without any protection whatsoever.
ESET Nod32 and I swear by it.
Not bothered by the review mentioned about memory usage.
I don't get slow downs or anything like it. Don't have infections and it's by far the best.
I've used it easy 8-9 years and I cannot tell you the last time I had a virus.
The amount of PC's from clients (outside of forums stuff I mean now) which I've had to repair because they use cheap, or free antivirus software, is simply unreal.
Anyone using FREE AVG or anything like that, may as well use the PC without any protection whatsoever.
QFT.
Not to mention their endpoint system makes large scale deployments.... so good.
Really? I wouldn't classify Cryptolocker, CryptoWall, and Critroni as spyware.But honestly it's not really virus that people get today but spyware.
Really? I wouldn't classify Cryptolocker, CryptoWall, and Critroni as spyware.
I know several local businesses that got hit by it... a couple of them paid the ransom and all but 1 of those got their files unlocked. Several just reinstalled all their programs since the data was kept on a remote system that could not be infected from their PC's. Several of those that got hit had malware protection AND antivirus protection installed.
The Dr. Office I work at recovered all their data from the off-site backups that we did. It still cost them $1500 to get back to where they were (mainly labor due to the amount of data (on the servers that were mapped network drives) being restored and the time involved in restoring the local desktop computers that were impacted). We've now moved from off-site to both off-site and on-site storage for the backups (biggest hit was the networks speed - max 15Mbps down via DSL and pulling in almost 3TB data took a while).
At that local Dr. office I do work for, we have Vipre anti-virus (business) installed. Does a decent job.
It is a very, very nasty trojan for sure. For a while it was morphing enough that the AV programs were missing it.I classify Cryptolocker and similar types as ransomware.
Sorry... for business they really do if they have users bringing media in from their residence and plugging in (thumb drives anyone). When you are dealing with medical records covered by HIPPA you want to make darned sure your systems are as protected as you can possibly make them (if you are a conscientious practice that is).TL;DR: You don't need a virus scanner wasting your system resources on Windows. It's 2015.
I know very few medical practices that are BYOD. I DO know practices that have issues with the providers (and nurses) bringing in thumb drives with "important stuff" to work on... and those thumb drives have gotten their data from (frequently) unprotected systems.In a BYOD business, it's not the user's fault when everyone in the network has the rights to spread viruses. Actually, allowing users to use potentially infected media from outside the business is quite the opposite of protection.
A virus scanner would not help.
I know very few medical practices that are BYOD. I DO know practices that have issues with the providers (and nurses) bringing in thumb drives with "important stuff" to work on... and those thumb drives have gotten their data from (frequently) unprotected systems.
At one of the clinics we are about to perform surgery on most of the machines so that there is only 2 USB ports available (keyboard & mouse). Policy is already in place that prohibits the bringing in of any outside non IT approved media. No "oh, I forgot" for them - because they have to unplug either the mouse or keyboard then to pull data from the thumb drive.
You cannot totally prevent the bringing in of outside media. Hell, even "official media" for software can be infected and slam you during the installation of the program.
One of the funny things is that at one of the clinics they used to all have admin privs on the desktops... now they are severely restricted in what they can do. I've never heard a group of adults whining so much.
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