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Re: recommendations for centrally managed corporate antivirus solution
From: Wes Deviers <wdevie () hrcsb org>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:48:03 -0500
I'll second Kaspersky. We switched recently from a more... "mainstream" AV that kept bogging down the old machines. The product itself is great; if you have Active Directory, the management console works fine. If you don't, you have to do the management based on IP ranges and that's a bit trickier. But then then non-AD set is probably less than 10 installations worldwide any more : (
The management console also gives you the ability to remotely install custom packages with surprisingly little hassle. If you don't already have a remote software installation kit (or don't like the one you have) the Kasperksy console has turned out to be really useful for that as well.
I can't really say much about detection level; we don't get many viruses on the network. But it has a much smaller footprint than other AVs I've used.
Wes On 02/14/2008 05:20 PM, Jennifer Brooker wrote:
We currently use Kaspersky after switching this year from Symantec Corporate version 10. We to were Symantec users for many years (and versions). The initial setup of Kaspersky can be somewhat tricky but it has been working extremely well for us and has a very small footprint. I also like the ability of Kaspersky to have nodes update from either the central server in network or their online server if the node is a mobile node and out of network coverage. Kaspersky will also quarantine nodesdepending on what rules you setup.As a side note Kaspersky found at least a dozen infections that Symantecdid not catch.Jennifer Brooker Partner, IT Specialist www.wealthmgmt.com -----Original Message----- From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On Behalf Of Mike Hale Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 1:20 PM To: illuminaeti () gmail com Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: Re: recommendations for centrally managed corporate antivirus solution We just rolled out TrendMicro at my last company. It worked fairly well. On 14 Feb 2008 15:38:41 -0000, illuminaeti () gmail com <illuminaeti () gmail com> wrote:Hi list On the different networks I manage, I've been using Symantec corporatesince version 7. I've never had any major issues with it until now.Version 11, now called "Symantec endpoint Protection" requires IIS andeither MS SQL or the symantec embedded database. I installed a copy on a test server and it just about crippled it. Network access from clients was incredibly slow and processor use was hitting %100. I've heard the same comments from a collegue who installed it on a new server at the customer's request. The file server was virtually unusable even before the client was installed on the workstation. Also the new GUI is just plain awful.I don't have the time or resources to tweak settings to get betterperformance out of the AV.I've heard good things about NOD32, Sophos and Kaspersky. I'vestarted looking around and of course, every website I visit tells me the software they sell is the best in the universe.So, looking for real answers from real users, I thought I'd ask youall about your experience, positive or negative, with various corporate antivirus software.Thanks in advance.
Current thread:
- recommendations for centrally managed corporate antivirus solution illuminaeti (Feb 14)
- Re: recommendations for centrally managed corporate antivirus solution Mike Hale (Feb 14)
- RE: recommendations for centrally managed corporate antivirus solution Jennifer Brooker (Feb 15)
- Re: recommendations for centrally managed corporate antivirus solution Wes Deviers (Feb 15)
- RE: recommendations for centrally managed corporate antivirus solution Ramki B (Feb 18)
- RE: recommendations for centrally managed corporate antivirus solution Mason, Samuel (Feb 15)
- RE: recommendations for centrally managed corporate antivirus solution Steve Anderson (Feb 15)
- RE: recommendations for centrally managed corporate antivirus solution Jennifer Brooker (Feb 15)
- Re: recommendations for centrally managed corporate antivirus solution Josh Haft (Feb 14)
- Re: recommendations for centrally managed corporate antivirus solution Patrick Hendrick (Feb 14)
- Re: recommendations for centrally managed corporate antivirus solution Jason P. Rusch (Feb 15)
- Re: recommendations for centrally managed corporate antivirus solution Allan Wind (Feb 15)
- RE: recommendations for centrally managed corporate antivirus solution Dan Lynch (Feb 15)
- Re: recommendations for centrally managed corporate antivirus solution Randy Wyatt (Feb 15)
- Re: recommendations for centrally managed corporate antivirus solution J-Michael Roberts (Feb 15)
- Re: recommendations for centrally managed corporate antivirus solution Randy Wyatt (Feb 15)
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- Re: recommendations for centrally managed corporate antivirus solution Mike Hale (Feb 14)