What's the answer to my question? (highlighted below in case you missed it)
And if you correctly answer the question, how do scheduled scans prevent an infection that real-time scanning wouldn't prevent? Here's another: How dangerous is a malware file that resides on a hard drive and is never accessed? Carl -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: User who doesn't like logging off / shutting down I'd believe you, except that I get reports from every scan of new bits of infestation, on at least 2 or three machines. Um, perhaps 'infestation' is not the right word. Let's say 'unwanted software' instead. Once in a while it's truly nasty, but more often is adware or some other silliness like the popcaploader crap from online games. Now, once we get to the point of eliminating admin rights for users on their desktops, I'll be more likely to agree with you. Kurt On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 18:30, Carl Houseman <[email protected]> wrote: vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv > All this turmoil over scheduled scans... tell me, what do scheduled scans > find that real-time scanning won't catch? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Scheduled scans are about as useful as software firewalls... > > Carl > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 9:26 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: User who doesn't like logging off / shutting down > > Most of our machines are about that old, but we tend to under-resource > our machines - I finally had to put my foot down to get our engineers > to 1gb of RAM, and in a few cases 2gb. I get complaints from those who > stay late on Monday night, and I finally told them to get in the > office earlier and go home before it starts. > > I get some complaints about the Wednesday scan, too, and tell those > folks to go to lunch, like normal people. > > Kurt > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 18:20, Sherry Abercrombie <[email protected]> wrote: >> A three year old Dell laptop....not anything special at all. >> >> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> You have a better machine than most of our folks, I suppose. We have >>> noticeable slowdowns on many of our machines. >>> >>> Still, it's *FAR* better than McAfee. >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 17:52, Sherry Abercrombie <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > You can't be serious.....I installed Vipre on my pc and started a deep >>> > scan >>> > right as my lunch hour started. Played a FPS game at lunch and never >>> > noticed a performance hit at all. >>> > >>> > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Tom Miller <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Welllllllllllllllll, Vipre still bogs down our PCs here when the weekly >>> >> deep scan is running. We get the same complaints we had when we used >>> >> Symantec. The quick scans are not noticed, but I'm bummed that the >>> >> deep >>> >> scan causes a very noticeable performance loss. It's set at low >>> >> priority, >>> >> but still the vipre process is first/second in memory/cpu usage during >>> >> the >>> >> deep scans. Anything that uses those sort of resources is *not* >>> >> running at >>> >> low priority. >>> >> >>> >> >>> Jonathan Link <[email protected]> 10/22/2009 7:47 PM >>> >>> >> Or go to Vipre... >>> >> >>> >> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Eric Woodford <[email protected]> >>> >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> Sorry, can't help. I hate to logoff my pc because the security team >>> >>> has >>> >>> our AV do a full scan each time I logon. It takes a good 2 hours of >>> >>> 100% >>> >>> processing on my machine. The easy fix is to disable the AV, but... >>> >>> Maybe they just need to remove a few apps out of their startup, so it >>> >>> boots faster. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Andrew Levicki <[email protected]> >>> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>> >>>> Hi, I've got a user who doesn't want to log off let alone shut down >>> >>>> their computer. >>> >>>> They claim that it takes too long and they haven't got time to wait >>> >>>> to >>> >>>> log on again or start up. >>> >>>> >>> >>>> They're important enough that I can't force them to do so, but I'm >>> >>>> worried about possible problems. >>> >>>> The only detrimental effects that I can think of are added power >>> >>>> consumption and ticket expiration. >>> >>>> Can anybody else think of any other pitfalls or even have any >>> >>>> experience >>> >>>> of this and how did you deal with it? >>> >>>> Thanks, >>> >>>> Andrew > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
