I installed Symantec Corporate Edition 9 on the laptop this afternoon to test it before rolling out across the network. Most of the user interface looks the same as the version 8 client, but it now has the ability to check for malware, adware, trojans and other nasty software. I ran it on the laptop and it found 8 spyware remnants on the pc, some of them in a directory called .old after I cleared up after my last spyware infection, and some more in my system directory - these things are persistent little wotsits.
The good thing is that I can still run the version 9 client in my version 8.5 corporate lan which means I can evaluate before having to install it on the master server.
Apparently the other good thing is that there is the ability to block the pc on the network if the dat files are not uptodate. Not sure how this works (probably similar to the way MS will do it) but if it works it will make my life easier in keeping the clients uptodate but will really annoy those managers users who won't update their machines or download games.
Incredifind BHO, Keenval,Adware.Binet were the applications that it found. From what i can tell, Binet is the swine application that downloaded the other files onto the machine. Interestingly Adaware with the latest dats doesn't detect any of the above files.
Yeah, I got our copy several weeks ago (actually, Enterprise Edition) and had it running very smoothly after a slight problem for some of our Outlook users. Can;t put the link in here, but search on Google for "vpmsece.dll" and Outlook and it's the second link.
Turns out SAV doesn't completely finish ths job as neatly as it should have when replacing the plugin for Outlook. It happen to roughly 15% of my users. Other than that, it's a dream knowing which one of the people on the LAN have mal/spyware installed as well on their machines.