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RE: Different AV Prouducts
From: "Eddy Alexandre" <EddyA () nichemediallc com>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:55:00 -0400
What about AVG Antivirus. I had great results with them? Anything against using them? Kind regards, Eddy Alexandre Dir. Information Technology Niche Media www.nichemediallc.com -----Original Message----- From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On Behalf Of Andy Cuff (Talisker) Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 12:07 PM To: pthroumoulos () rochester rr com; security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: RE: Different AV Prouducts I would strongly suggest reconsidering your options and escalating your issue with Symantec. You may face the same support issues with another AV vendor, in addition to trying to integrate a new AV into your enterprise. I'm not advocating Symantec over Sophos or Kapersky, I'm just considering the impact of the change. I Regards Andy Cuff Computer Network Defence Ltd www.SecurityWizardry.com
I was wondering if anybody could provide me with any positive information about switching from Symantec Corporate Edition (10.1.4.4000) to any other AV products. I have looked at a couple different solutions but am by no means a security guru and would appreciate any feedback I could get that would help persuade me to switch to a different solution. The two other products that I am considering are Kaspersky or Sophos. Reason I picked these two is that I have seen quite a few emails bounced back and forth about the quality of both of these products compared to Symantec. Obviously all AV products are going to be better
at certain things than others such as detection and removal. All I am looking for is a product that I can implement on about 180+ clients and about 30 servers that will be easily managed and not have too large of a foot print and I do not want to have to visit every client to remove the old AV before deploying the new solution. One of the reasons I would like to switch from Symantec to another product is that just recently I had to deal with their tech support for an issue we were experiencing on our clients. My experience with tech support has left me very jaded as it took them almost three weeks
to figure out the problem. The issue we were experiencing was when a user would log into their desktop explorer.exe would not load and they would only see their wallpaper (All dell machines) The solution to the issue was to turn of
"tamper protection" on all the clients, though this did solve the issue I am still a little concerned about the fact that you need to turn off any component of any AV product. I also feel like Symantec does not do the
best job at detection of other types of malware besides viruses. Several times this year I had several infected clients that I had to rebuild because Symantec did not detect the issues till it was too late to do anything. If anybody could point me in the right direction to getting more info on a better AV solution than Symantec I would greatly appreciate it.
Current thread:
- Different AV Prouducts pthroumoulos (Aug 13)
- Re: Different AV Prouducts Michael Painter (Aug 14)
- Re: Different AV Prouducts Isaac Perez Moncho (Aug 14)
- RE: Different AV Prouducts Murda Mcloud (Aug 15)
- Re: Different AV Prouducts Gleb Paharenko (Aug 15)
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- RE: Different AV Prouducts Andy Cuff (Talisker) (Aug 13)
- RE: Different AV Prouducts Eddy Alexandre (Aug 13)
- RE: Different AV Prouducts dave_mikesch (Aug 13)
- Re: Different AV Prouducts ॐ aditya mukadam ॐ (Aug 14)
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- Fwd: Different AV Prouducts John Bond (Aug 14)
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- RE: Different AV Products Andy Cuff (Talisker) (Aug 15)