AOL’s Active Security Monitor Experience
We have used the active security monitor (ASM) for a few months. The current product version is 2.0.0.18. Over time ASM has gotten better at detecting whether a particular product is up-to-date. Sometimes it has said a critical update was available for Windows but it turned out to be an update for Windows Defender.
We turned off the antivirus monitoring in our firewall; no reason to have two monitors.
One thing that needs to be corrected is the detection of optimization programs. I have one computer that uses an older version of Diskeeper which is not detected. What ASM should do is have an option that you will monitor your optimization program and not penalize you for it.
ASM has caught a few times where the virus scanner was out-of-date. One time the scanner was turned off!
Doug