RE: Invircible AntiVirus

From: Daryl Maunder <dmaunder(at)midnightoil.com.au>
Date: Wed Dec 11 2002 - 17:06:24 EST

I had a large customer using it for several years, whose CIO swore by it. He believe it to be so good that they had never had a virus across the company. However due to Invircible's method of keeping a CRC of each file on each computer, and alerting when one changes, they had never kwonlingly had a virus stopped by invircible either. I couldn't quite cope with a product that had no pattern/program updates, and no alerting of viruses. All it ever said was file so-and-so had changed, do you want to update the list. Since this happened all the time for legitimate reasons, users simply said yes anyway. Eventually they had a real problem, and I installed Trend Officescan on a few computers, found numerous viruses everywhere. The CIO was a bit speechless, and Officescan went out on all of them, and found many more viruses.

I realise that the catch-up method of continual pattern and engine updates is not ideal, but neither is this product.

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From: Luke Potter [mailto:Luke.Potter@ipex.com.au] Sent: Monday, 9 December 2002 11:18
To: focus-virus@securityfocus.com
Subject: Invircible AntiVirus

Would anyone know if there have been any reviews or any comparisons which involve Invircible AntiVirus? I haven't previously seen this product but have come across it a number of times in the last couple of weeks.

I have looked around but the only review/whitepaper I could find was from 1996 (Vircing the Invircible).

Thanks

Luke Potter
Ipex ITG

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