Re: Mcaffee or Norton antivirus?
I had a couple of systems hit when running Norton as well - but these were folks who clicked on the "you've visited illegal websites" attachments when they first appeared - but before a NAV update got to their PCs.
The systems behind NAV server-based filters (brightmail+NAV, BTW) were not hit. The server based filter has a "heuristic" processing feature (that uses a lot of cycles, also BTW) that seems to have caught all of these - or maybe the folks at those sites have better sense.
Speaking of "having better sense" - I was working at a software development company when the "I love you" virus came out. Lots of folks in sales/marketing/administration got hit. Not a single developer...
As a total-off-topic: for a short while at that company I mentioned above, the head of sales got put in charge of all development (about fifty developers). We'd been having regular get togethers (lunchtime pizza plus presentation so we were all sitting down watching the podium). The new director of development got to the front of the room and tried to get us all motivated. He was trying to use a combination of fear and greed - which must have worked for him in the past - but on sales people. Realizing what was going on, and curious about audience reaction (I've tried hard through my career to avoid managerial positions, but still know a little bit about that makes developers interested in a task), I moved to a point where I could see the developers' faces: boredom, puzzlement, disgust - or maybe contempt. That director got moved back to sales a couple of weeks later... Note - not an anti-sales-person rant, I just found the differing motivations interesting.
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