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McAfee Artemis Claims Protection Online, On-the-Fly

Posted by kdawson on from the like-a-signature-database-in-the-cloud dept.

Seems like McAfee has created a new Internet-based service to provide active protection on the fly when a PC gets hit by malicious computer code. "[Artemis] is a lot faster than traditional methodologies and it closes the gap between when a piece of malware is written, discovered, analyzed and protected against ... Artemis is available at no charge as part of McAfee VirusScan Enterprise or McAfee Total Protection Service for small and medium-sized businesses. Artemis is also available for McAfee's consumer products, where the functionality is called Active Protection."

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  1. Re:Flawed methodology by im_thatoneguy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Here here.

    I usually run on a DMZ. No firewall local or at the router.

    I even have a dynamicDNS directed to my main computer.

    I scan regularly. And haven't been infected in over 8 years. (which was my fault for opening an attachment without thinking.)

    My current windows install is about 2 years old with LOTS of use. The computer is 5 years old and it's time to junk it. It's also still suffering from a 4 year old Norton uninstall that seems to have never completed and is getting worse. Norton was the worst thing that ever happened to one of my computers and I still haven't completely purged it.

    What junks up my Windows PCs aren't the illicit viruses that get installed without my permission. It's all the crap that comes along with little freeware worthless pieces of crap that I need to use once to convert some file or another.

    Windows PCs and Macs get used very differently. Having run both of them I used them very differently myself--largely because there just isn't the world of little crappy apps available.

    I'm with parent. Your comparison is apples to oranges.