Whyyyy?

Persistant, rogue antispyware programs make me want to cry. Or kill someone.

Alas, I don't get to tell the publisher of the paper that it's basically his fault for clicking on something he shouldn't have. *lesigh*

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  1. ajeyaOctober 6, 2009 at 4:12 PM

    We upgraded to Symantec Endpoint Protection and use a central server to manage antivirus/antispyware/antiroguemalware definitions and program settings, so no-one can change them (except IT). It is much much better at malware/spyware than previous versions of Symantec Antivirus, and has a firewall component. Really, it's what the product should've been all along. I leverage that technology with this message to all employees: "We have software that detects all malicious software and viruses and it will never inform you. It will inform me. Therefore, any notification you see about your computer having viruses is bogus, and if you see such a notification and are in doubt, call me. Otherwise, close your programs and restart your computer if you see such a notification. Or if you can't, call me." Of course, I also get management weight behind me to enforce a 'no admin rights' policy too and the combination is very effective. But you've already mentioned your legacy program issues in that regard. Good luck. Lately I've been finding the best course in the last few years is to just pull the HDD, put in another one and rebuild from scratch. When rebuilt, copy data from old HDD to new HDD. The stuff now just is buried so deep it's too hard to clean out and I'm sure you don't care to be an expert on the subject either - that probably implies waaaay too much time spent on it.

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