Antivirus: Noculus, enoculus, (nah-que-lus) what?

[MegaloManiaK]

Ok, so a client of mine heard of some antivirus softare he called noculus or e-noculus or enoculus (nah-que-lus) and wanted me to find out about it??? I have no idea what he's talking about and can't seem to find anything on google. A tech who came out to replace his computer recommended it to him. He says it updates daily and is supposed to be better than norton (i have no opinion, my antivirus is not opening forwarded or strange emails). Does anyone have a clue what this could be?

 

[labgeek]

It's probably INoculus. But I've never heard of that one. There is a Computer Associates antivirus program InoculateIT and also InocuLAN. Check out http://www.cai.com/ for those. We used to run it on a couple of servers, and it did a decent job. We did run into a couple of compatibility problems a few years back, but those got worked out.

 

[MegaloManiaK]

Thanks alot, that looks like the one. They renamed it "e-trust" apparently but it sounds like what was described to me.

 

[Smilin]

Oddly enough you don't want your antivirus to update *every* day. Sure you want rapid updates but if they come out every day they aren't being tested right. It's all fun and games until you roll out new defs in your enterprise only to find out that you're getting a false positive in ntloader or something. D'oh!

 

[MegaloManiaK]

Originally posted by: Smilin
Oddly enough you don't want your antivirus to update *every* day. Sure you want rapid updates but if they come out every day they aren't being tested right. It's all fun and games until you roll out new defs in your enterprise only to find out that you're getting a false positive in ntloader or something. D'oh!

You make a good point. Im not sure if thats exactly what he meant, remember this is grapevine stuff from a salesman not a computer tech, and it may be that someone was saying it checks for updates each day. The product advertises that updates don't take very long and therefore you get them without much hassel keeping you more up to date than if you have to plan out a time where you can connect up for the night and let it download a huge file.