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There is a free program available from Computer Associates called
InoculateIT. http://antivirus.cai.com/
Computer Associates deals mostly with business accounts and has developed
the PC version for what appears to be just a matter of good policy. Anyway,
I've used it for about 3 yrs. and find it better than Norton or McAfee. It
is small, doesn't interfere with any application, and has had fixes for the
prominent viruses/worms before the big guys. I don't even have to disable it
when loading new applications/programs.
Steve McIntyre Technology Teacher
spmcintyre@raincity.com
Loyal Heights Elementary School
2511 NW 80th St.
Seattle, WA. 98117
206 706-3880
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From: Wes Felty [mailto:wfelty@gte.net]
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 7:20 PM
To: TIC-TECH@tic.ssd.k12.wa.us
Subject: Tic-Tech: anti-virus advice?
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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:
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>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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