RE: recommendations for centrally managed corporate antivirus solution

["Dan Lynch" <DLynch () placer ca gov>]

We've had good experiences with McAfee's desktop anti-virus and ePolicy
Orchestrator server. We support ~3000 clients, and a hundred Windows
servers with a half dozen AV policies, all centrally managed.

We're less pleased with their Secure Content Management perimeter web
and mail AV proxy. Though it does its job just fine (its anti-SPAM
capabilities are notable), it's complex enough that McAfee support is
too often stumped by our questions. In general, it's difficult to get
satisfactory answers in a timely fashion from McAfee support, except for
the most fundamental sorts of questions.

Dan Lynch, CISSP
Information Technology Analyst
County of Placer
Auburn, CA

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> Subject: recommendations for centrally managed corporate 
> antivirus solution
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> Hi list
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> On the different networks I manage, I've been using Symantec 
> corporate since version 7. I've never had any major issues 
> with it until now. 
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> Version 11, now called "Symantec endpoint Protection" 
> requires IIS and either 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. 
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>  I don't have the time or resources to tweak settings to get 
> better performance out of the AV.  
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>  I've heard good things about NOD32, Sophos and Kaspersky.  
> I've started looking around and of course, every website I 
> visit tells me the software they sell is the best in the universe. 
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> So, looking for real answers from real users, I thought I'd 
> ask you all about your experience, positive or negative, with 
> various corporate antivirus software.
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> Thanks in advance.