While running multiple AVs across an enterprise (ie, one brand for servers, another for desktops) is a nice, though not fail-safe layered defense, the last time I checked, running multiple AV products on the same desktop system was considered "bad" given how they can false- positive each other and how much extra load that scanning places on the CPU. In my case, aside from a test lab for AV research, I never ran multiple AVs on Windows machines, and here's Apple's recommending it.[1]
One could parse the vague Apple comment as advice to run "one of several" AV products - with the hopes if you're compromised by undetected malware on your current AV product, just buy a different product and maybe it'll detect it. Or, they're saying "go forth, buy, and install multiple AV products on the same system" and then sit back to hope one of 'em detects bad things. Either way it's goofy advice. --rf [1] Intego, moreso than Symantec, IMHO, is a first-rate FUD factory on Mac security and I view much of their breathlessly-sensational security-threat press statements with great scepticism. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2550?viewlocale=en_US Mac OS: Antivirus utilities * Last Modified: November 21, 2008 * Article: HT2550 "Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult." http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2550?viewlocale=en_US _______________________________________________ Infowarrior mailing list [email protected] https://attrition.org/mailman/listinfo/infowarrior
