isn't Kaspersky the one that did the "proof of concept windows/linux virus"?<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/23/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Clay Dowling</b> <<a href="mailto:clay@lazarusid.com">
clay@lazarusid.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><a href="mailto:frank.dolinar@comcast.net">frank.dolinar@comcast.net
</a> wrote:<br><br>> On the other hand, if I thought I had an alternative, I wouldn't be<br>> going this route.<br><br>I strongly recommend Kaspersky anti-virus. Although it doesn't claim to<br>be an anti-spyware package, it has in fact proved invaluable in
<br>destroying such processes. A client is in the unfortunate position of<br>being required by his employer to run his PC using Internet Explorer<br>with all security restrictions off (this was not pin-headed management<br>
either; a core application essential to doing his job required it). As<br>you can imagine the machine was overrun with all manner of nastiness.<br>There were better than 100 pieces of malware, with a massive number<br>running as active processes.
<br><br>Kaspersky, in a couple of scan and kill cycles, managed to kill all of<br>them, and kept his computer safe after that. I haven't found Norton or<br>any of the other products at the big-box stores capable of protecting
<br>systems so well.<br><br>Clay<br>--<br>CeaMuS<br><a href="http://www.ceamus.com">http://www.ceamus.com</a><br>Simple Content Management<br>_______________________________________________<br>linux-user mailing list<br><a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">
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