AOL to enter security arena

God help the unsuspecting buyer: AOL's current subscriber security is absolute crap. Just had a subscriber machine in the shop because a 100GB hard drive had filled up to unusability in less than 6 months.
First, of course, I suspected a Trojan overwriting the drive. AOl's McFee was useless -- it scanned about 18k files out of 462,000. Another AV program, AdAware and Spybot found nothing. There wasn't room enough on the drive to run Ewido.
I thought I was going to have to wipe the machine and start over (see David Berlind, this issue http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=241&tag=nl.e539) but curiosity got the best of me. (This was pro bono job). In poking around trying to find the files that weren't showing up anywhere I discovered that AOL's highly promoted anti-spyware quarantines everything and deletes nothing. As if you'd want to save malware. The quarantine file was taking up over 82 gig!
If this is AOL's idea of security...; Posted by: remoulton Posted on: 06/07/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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