I've been using Sophos for many years since it was the preferred choice of
our HA and we were encouraged to install on machines at home as well.
When I left my practice some friendly neighbourhood colleagues allowed me
use of their regular CDs in this way, but everyone is now getting automatic
server upgrades, so no more CDs for me.
So - what are the team's recommendations for cost-effective AV protection?
Robert
> -----Original Message-----
> From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Laurie Miles
> After the debacle earlier this year in which an older version of McAfee
> caused lots of workstations to crash (including our server), I have moved
> over to Symantec products - I have always used Norton Antivirus on
> workstations, and now have Symantec Antivirus throughout the practice. Our
> PCT, however, have done a deal with McAfee which means they will be
rolling
> it out "free" to everyone in our PCT - apart from the practice of the IT
> lead GP ;-)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> In the last few days McAfee seem to have made changes in the way McAfee
> VirusScan works which mean you can no longer get updates unless you use MS
> IE. I found this out when VirusScan reported that it had not been able to
> update for 3 days.
>
> I have been using Mozilla Firefox as my default browser for some time and
it
> has worked fine with McAfee VirusScan until 3 days ago. Given that Firefox
> has not been updated in this period this is clearly a change to either
> McAfee VirusScan or the update we site. Attempts to update manually result
> in a message saying I must use IE. While not very friendly to other
browsers
> even Microsoft provides routes to their updates that don't require IE and
I
> find this action quite unacceptable.
>
> I plan to make some noise about what appears to be a deliberate action by
> McAfee. Has anyone else experienced problems?
>
> My plan is to change over to Grisoft AVG which I have been using on my
> laptop for a while (McAfee VirusScan doesn't seem to be able to cope with
> machines that have an intermittent connection to the Internet)
>
> Ewan Davis - Director - Woodcote Consulting
> - Chairman - British Computer Society - Primary
Health
> Care Group
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