Virus Outbreak

Serbian

Hey,

A network we are dealing with just got infected with a couple of virus's. Someone plugged a laptop into the network that had previously been used outside of a firewall and with out of date virus definitions :mad:

Everyone in the place is using either Nortons or AVG Free edition. Just wondering what people think about AVG? Do you think it will pick all the virsues that may be lurking on their system?

Also, what do you think the best way to make sure every computer is clean? Disconnect each from the network and scan individually and then reconnect each one at a time?

Thanks for any input.

Serb

DjTaz

Heya.

Im an I.T. Tech in IBM Computers.
We have Nortons Corperate edition here. Out of curiousity i rand AVG FRee (about 6 months back) on one of the systems and 1 found 6 viruses that Nortons Corperate had either missed or dismissed.

I have AVG Full 7 myself at home and have run Nortons from time to time to double check it - i have only ever found 1 virus that AVG had missed - thats when i had the free version.

One thing i did find is that many of the systems miss SPYWARE for some reason.

http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/parasite.htm

That site will check your system for a few of them - might be of use to you.

Hope thats some bit of help - but always remember - an anti virus program is only as good as its latest definations - UPDATE REGULARLY.

If you guys feel you need an IT Consultant, let me know

Serbian

Thanks a lot Taz. I may yet be taking you up on that offer, are you based in Dublin?

DjTaz

Hey Serbian,

That i am - out near the Blanchardstown area at the moment.

If you need any more info im pretty much online all day from work anyway - so post away and ill do my best to answer

Cake Fiend

This might be a good time to tighten up your network security (open shares, weak passwords, vulnerable servers, etc).