Monday, October 13, 2008

Re: MalWare

Take a look at the options Sophos offers. endpoint will protect stations
and the web-filter can protect at the gateway.

Brian Meeks ACTC, ACDT, A+
Network Administrator
The Paideia School
404-270-2306

A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> writes:
>I was wondering how many of you run active Malware apps on the computers.
> I have Symantec running, but it obviously not designed to stop Spyware
>and similar.
>
>Usually I just deal with it when there are problems. I just download
>Spybot and Ad-Aware and run both in safe mode and reboot. But today, one
>of my teachers got the XP Antivirus 2008 Spyware, and I went through
>eight Anti Spyware apps before Malwarebytes finally removed it.
>
>I was just wondering if I should be looking for something that I should
>install on all the computers. I know on my personal computer I find it
>really slows it down, so I turn off the antispyware service and just run
>it once a month or so to clean it up.
>
>(BTW: We are a PC school and use Firefox for 99% of internet use.)
>
>Thanks,
>
>Renee Ramig
>Seven Hills School
>
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