Tic-Tech: anti-virus advice?

From: Wes Felty (wfelty@gte.net)
Date: Wed Nov 15 2000 - 19:20:09 PST

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    I would choose Norton AV over anything else any day of the week. At
    Ingraham, I install Nortons AV on any machine that has a license for it and
    Command AV on all else. I do know that NAV 2000 has worked for me. I have
    no information pro or con on Command AV.

    Well, actually, I do have a little experience with Command AV. Or,
    actually, with its predecessor, "f-prot". Some people thought that
    "f-prot" was great and installed it all over. I found that it missed some
    viruses and even worse, it interferred with some of our most used software.
     With "f-prot" running, MicroTypePro literally took 5-10 minutes to start
    up. With this background, I feel that the newer version is "better than
    nothing" if it no longer has the bad habits of its predecesor.

    -Wes

    Wes Felty <wfelty@gte.net>

    At 01:32 PM 11/15/2000 -0800, you wrote:
    >--- TIC-TECH message:
    >Last spring my school bought 70+ licenses of Norton 2000 from the
    >district for $800+. We were never able to get it installed on more than
    >4 machines. Now the district is offering Command Anti virus free. I'm
    >looking for advice here... If we figure out a way to get the software
    >loaded on all our machines, which way should we go? Stay with what we
    >paid for, or go with the free program? I'm not at all familiar with
    >Command. I ask in part because this was a fairly weighty decision for
    >the school, how to spend that money. I'm willing to tell staff I should
    >have seen it coming, the free program is lots better, whatever. But we
    >do need to decide which program would be best for us now. Thanks in
    >advance for any advice. - Mark
    >
    >Mark Ahlness
    >mahlness@cks.ssd.k12.wa.us
    >Teacher, grade three, at
    >Arbor Heights Elementary School
    >http://www.halcyon.com/arborhts
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