Mcafee Vs Anti Trojen Sheild

cob · Apr 17, 2004

I have a question. Why is it that when I run Mcafee I have no virus, but when I run the trail edition of Trojen shield it come up with a virus ("smallfun1.1client") Are these programs diffrent? Is one better than the other. All I know is that I spent a lot of money for Mcafee and I am pretty upset that it did not catch this!

billH · Apr 17, 2004

hey Cob First, have you updated Macafee lately? Could be the virus is included in their latest VDB update. Macafee does cost a lot of money, I know. I used it when for about a year (it came bundled on a pooter I bought)and don't care for it personally. If you want a span of opinions on the product go to this thread. Also there are the online scanners like pest patrol and trend micro . Also Zone Alarm has a new online scanner. If you want to check out most of the aiti-vir/trojan/worm/etc, scanner apps out there go here.
Bill
edit: yeah what abby said too

cob · Apr 17, 2004

yes, my anti virus was just updated today and still nothing was detected by mcafee.

DavidGP · Apr 17, 2004

Sadly NO matter what Av app you use they will NOT catch all Virii or Trojans, McAfee albiet a tad fat around the waist still actively catches around 99% +/- of all Virii according to some online Av tests, like all AV apps they do need to be kept upto date.. if you find a new one or one that the app doesnt alert you too THEN submit it to the company.

http://us.mcafee.com/root/faqs.asp?faq=453

info on SmallFun http://www.pestpatrol.com/pestinfo/s/smallfun_1_1.asp

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