RE: recommendations for centrally managed corporate antivirus solution

["Mason, Samuel" <SMason () mt gov>]

We recently changed from McAfee to ESET's NOD32. I highly recommend it. Management and alerting is good and the client 
itself is pretty small and quick.

Samuel Mason CISSP, GCFA

-----Original Message-----
From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On Behalf Of Mike Hale
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 12:20 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 corporate since version 7. I've never had any major 
> issues with it until now.
>
>
> 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.

>  I don't have the time or resources to tweak settings to get better performance out of the AV.
>
>  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.
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> Thanks in advance.


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