Re: Best cookie/popup/ad blocker...

From: Vanguardx (see_signature)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:19:44 -0500

"Johnny Canuck" <Johnny_Canuck1@hotmail.com>
wrote in news:pCr6d.55$Yu3.27@clgrps12:
>
> [offtopic: I just did a anti-virus post in the other group to see what
> people think, but the link you gave me seems to point to Kapersky
> being the best, with AVG being pretty decent for a free program. I
> didn't notice that this thread was still in that outbox or I would
> have deleted. Are you my shadow btw ;)

When my NAV subscription expires, my choices for replacement will be (as
of today) either Kaspersky or NOD32 (and maybe add TDS-3 to NOD32), but
subscription expires in March 2005 so my choices might change by then.
Kaspersky has done pretty well not only in detecting viruses but also
detecting trojans. However, Kaspersky creates and ADS (alternate data
stream) to a file to save a hash signature of that file which it can use
to speed up subsequent scans by seeing the file hasn't changed since the
last scan. I don't like this technique and consider it pollutive. They
now have a utility to remove those ADS'es (i.e., their latest version
still adds them and then you use this utility to remove them, so I don't
know if the removal is permanent or you get stuck having to run it
periodically to clean up after Kaspersky).

>From my other posts (http://snipurl.com/9fl3, http://snipurl.com/9fl7,
http://snipurl.com/9fl6, http://snipurl.com/9fla), you'll see that I
mention anti-virus products don't scan the ADS of files, and Kasperksy
might not either (I haven't found them mention that they do) although
they utilize it for their own purpose. To be accurate, I'm not saying
that no anti-virus products scan the ADS of files. I'm saying I haven't
found any claiming that they do scan the ADS of files. ADS has been
around as long as NTFS so I have to wonder why it was only recently that
users have questioned the negligence to scan them. Ad-Aware'new version
supposedly now scans ADS, but Spybot does not and I haven't seen an
anti-virus product announcing it as a feature. 

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