Re: Anti-Virus/Malware Enterprise Options

[Ric Getter <ric.getter () PCC EDU>]

For what it's worth, on the Mac OS, the single-threaded McAfee enterprise
client is responsible for the worst performance hit of any AV that I
tested. Also, in more than a few cases, we needed to load another
anti-malware app on a system to clean out a browser highjacking problem
that McAfee missed.

After some research and testing, I came to the conclusion that Avira Free
for Mac offers the best protection with the smallest performance footprint.
We're now moving to it on our in-house video production and editing systems
and have seen a substantial improvement. We were using AVG for a while for
this group but I'm starting to phase it out because of privacy concerns
with their free version (there's no paid Mac version of either of these).

Ric


Ric Getter
PCC Media Communications/PCC-TV
Portland Community College - Sylvania
971-722-8036

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 8:32 AM, Doug Brooks <dbrooks () parkland edu> wrote:

> We are currently using McAfee as our AV solution but are evaluating other
> options.  We are upgrading to the latest McAfee Endpoint Security version
> for our enterprise but also want to consider other products including
> Microsoft’s System Center Endpoint Protection/Defender platform.  The
> latter would save us money but I’m not yet confident that it is a viable
> enterprise solution.
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> I’d appreciate any feedback on McAfee, Microsoft or other enterprise-grade
> solutions that you are using.
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> Thanks,
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> Doug
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> Parkland College
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> dbrooks () parkland edu
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