The News Review:
- Extra-Suite Virus and Spam Protection
- Extra-suite virus and spam protection.(Security Suites)(Product/Servic…
- Haiku’da Been a Spam Filter
- Security Suites Are Rife With Problems
- Anti-spam Protection Pays For Itself
- Spam Slayer: The Fog of Spam War
Extra-Suite Virus and Spam Protection
PC World – Oct 7, 2003
–> Lincoln Spector Tuesday, October 07, 2003 04:00 PM PDT Like a small town in a Dashiell Hammett novel, the Internet can be a dirty and dangerous place. The biggest movers in the PC protection business, Symantec and McAfee, sell software to protect your computer from various online thugs. Now, both companies have updated their suites so that one installation routine delivers better antivirus programs, spam filters, and firewall protection.
Extra-suite virus and spam protection.(Security Suites)(Product/Servic…
Free with registration – PC World – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 1, 2003
Extra-suite virus and spam protection. (01-NOV-03) PC World. The biggest movers in the PC protection business, Symantec and McAfee, sell software.
Haiku’da Been a Spam Filter
Wired News – Aug 20, 2002
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Security Suites Are Rife With Problems
Washington Post – Oct 9, 2005
Both firms supply the antivirus programs offered in trial form on most new PCs– and which help advertise their full-fledged security suites. But the 2006 editions of these suites –McAfee Internet Security Suite 2006, $50 as a download or $70 as a box for Win 98 or newer; Symantec’s Norton Internet Security 2006, $70 for Win 2000 and XP — look unworthy of that success. For one thing, they face competition from Microsoft, which last year added effective firewall protection to Windows XP with its Service Pack 2 update and has since released a surprisingly good (though still in beta test) anti-spyware tool. For another, the complexity of the Symantec and McAfee suites seems to cause them to fail in ugly and destructive ways, according to readers who have written in to complain about these problems week after month after year. Most important, the latest McAfee and Symantec suites just don’t work all that well. Both excel only in their antivirus utilities– which you can buy separately from these all-purpose bundles. Each program correctly blocked viruses received via e-mail in two different e-mail applications and via AOL’s AIM instant-messenger software… Symantec and McAfee also tout spam filtering, but that applies only if you use the two mail programs they support– Microsoft’s antiquated Outlook Express and bloated Outlook. In addition, their filters assume your e-mail account runs on the Post Office Protocol standard, ignoring a newer, more convenient standard called IMAP. McAfee’s spam filter used an unnecessarily convoluted setup and didn’t allow the encrypted login required by a test Gmail account. The two security bundles can filter out ads on Web pages as well as in e-mail. Symantec’s ad-blocking did zap many of the more annoying commercials online, but at the cost of erasing non-ad graphics on occasion. McAfee’s ad-blocking, however, routinely dismantled innocent graphics — including the masthead graphic at the top of The Post’s home page– while allowing plenty of real ads to sail through. Don’t bother with Symantec’s weak parental controls.
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Anti-spam Protection Pays For Itself
InformationWeek – Apr 19, 2004
In the report with the heady title of “The True Cost of SPAM and Value of Anti-SPAM Solutions,” IDC vice president of research Mark Levitt said that the numbers clearly show deploying anti-spam solutions makes economic sense. “Investing in anti-spam solutions yields a positive return on investment (ROI) and rapid payback,” said Levitt.
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Spam Slayer: The Fog of Spam War
PC World – Aug 23, 2004
A good spam filter–on the desktop as well as on the e-mail server–is essential, no matter how successful your ISP says it is when it comes to fighting spam. One curious thing I’ve noted in a good portion of the spam I receive is that the body of the message is peppered with gibberish, random words, or made-up words. What purpose does this serve for the spammer? –Bruce C.
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