Corporate Antivirus

[Zeppo]

Our current contract with Trend is about to expire, and the boss wants me to research antivirus programs for a new corporate rollout.

I suggested Norton, and a coworker likes McAfee, and of course everyone else likes something else.

Can anyone tell me pros and cons of corporate antivirus?

Thanks!

 

[bsobel]

For the most part the engines are similar if not the same to their consumer offerings, the primarily benefit is centralized management, control, and reporting. I of course recommend Symantec Client Security (but I'm biased )

 

[SecPro]

Originally posted by: bsobel
For the most part the engines are similar if not the same to their consumer offerings, the primarily benefit is centralized management, control, and reporting. I of course recommend Symantec Client Security (but I'm biased )

+1

 

[Zugzwang152]

I am a fan of McAfee VirusScan Enterprise, but I never got experience with Symantec in a larger company.

 

[gsellis]

Originally posted by: bsobel
For the most part the engines are similar if not the same to their consumer offerings, the primarily benefit is centralized management, control, and reporting. I of course recommend Symantec Client Security (but I'm biased )

+2.

We have SAV CE and are just implementing the reporter. We can remotely scan, get trends, add spam filters (also have SAV spam appliances), push updates (and get priority notication on updates), etc.

 

[Tarrant64]

Originally posted by: gsellis

Originally posted by: bsobel
For the most part the engines are similar if not the same to their consumer offerings, the primarily benefit is centralized management, control, and reporting. I of course recommend Symantec Client Security (but I'm biased )

+2.

We have SAV CE and are just implementing the reporter. We can remotely scan, get trends, add spam filters (also have SAV spam appliances), push updates (and get priority notication on updates), etc.

+3.

Using SAV also. Hopefully I'll get in a new server to start using reporting center as well. So far so good this year.

 

[Homer Simpson]

used SAV CE at my old job and liked it both from a user standpoint and administrator. at my current job, we have mcafee and i hate it with a passion. its extremely intrusive from an enduser persepective. i dont administer it but i do have access to epolicy orchestrator for looking up stuff once in a while and it sucks. no mcafee. yes symantec.

 

[tyanni]

We use TrendMicro OfficeScan... Seems to work well

 

[compudog]

Running SAV CE. The centralized management and reporting work well. I had a little difficulty doing the initial roll-out from the server, but it all works, and works well now.

 

[hans007]

You should buy bigfix enterprise suite... with bigfix antithreat. i am also horribly biased on this one, but it is also centrally managed.

 

[Zugzwang152]

Originally posted by: Homer Simpson
used SAV CE at my old job and liked it both from a user standpoint and administrator. at my current job, we have mcafee and i hate it with a passion. its extremely intrusive from an enduser persepective. i dont administer it but i do have access to epolicy orchestrator for looking up stuff once in a while and it sucks. no mcafee. yes symantec.

Can you go into further detail on McAfee? What makes it intrusive?

ePO is kind of a pain, but it was fairly intuitive for me to pick up the basics of it.

 

[Woodie]

Macafee enterprise, with EPO here.

Not the best product, but not the worst either. Advantages (for us) of the EPO stuff...
Centrally managed A/V client, EPO agen, and DATs.
Centrally managed Anti-Spyware product
Up and coming, centrally managed USB/Port and removal media control
Reporting: Less than 100% accurate, but as good as anything else we have around here.

I don't find the client intrusive at all. (I ignore it!)

 

[Homer Simpson]

Originally posted by: Zugzwang152

Originally posted by: Homer Simpson
used SAV CE at my old job and liked it both from a user standpoint and administrator. at my current job, we have mcafee and i hate it with a passion. its extremely intrusive from an enduser persepective. i dont administer it but i do have access to epolicy orchestrator for looking up stuff once in a while and it sucks. no mcafee. yes symantec.

Can you go into further detail on McAfee? What makes it intrusive?

ePO is kind of a pain, but it was fairly intuitive for me to pick up the basics of it.

its pops up alerts on buffer overflows in office and ie all the time. if it happens in IE, it locks ie up and i have to end task and close ALL my ie windows. its just an anoying PITA to have to open all my windows up and log back in to everything. its realtime scanner is also kinda slow. atleast it seems slow to me.

ePO is just painfully slow to use. maybe its because we have almost 70,000 devices. i dont use ePO regularly, but its not the most intuitive app either.

again, this is all just my personal opinion.

 

[Zugzwang152]

Originally posted by: Homer Simpson

Originally posted by: Zugzwang152

Originally posted by: Homer Simpson
used SAV CE at my old job and liked it both from a user standpoint and administrator. at my current job, we have mcafee and i hate it with a passion. its extremely intrusive from an enduser persepective. i dont administer it but i do have access to epolicy orchestrator for looking up stuff once in a while and it sucks. no mcafee. yes symantec.

Can you go into further detail on McAfee? What makes it intrusive?

ePO is kind of a pain, but it was fairly intuitive for me to pick up the basics of it.

its pops up alerts on buffer overflows in office and ie all the time. if it happens in IE, it locks ie up and i have to end task and close ALL my ie windows. its just an anoying PITA to have to open all my windows up and log back in to everything. its realtime scanner is also kinda slow. atleast it seems slow to me.

ePO is just painfully slow to use. maybe its because we have almost 70,000 devices. i dont use ePO regularly, but its not the most intuitive app either.

again, this is all just my personal opinion.

I suppose you could disable the local warning box on virus detection if its that much of a pain. I don't have anywhere close to 70,000 devices, so I guess I can't speak to performance on that scale... I'd assume we have somewhere between 5000 and 10000 devices, most in a single location too.

 

[Zeppo]

Ok, got the boss man almost ready to make a purchase.
Any last moment comments?

Thanks for all the input.

 

[blure007]

I'm in the same boat but with McAfee. Our contract runs out this month and I have been looking around.

Looks like a lot of people are Symantec fans but I was wondering if anyone have used Kaspersky. Their version 7 looks to be quite promising and I'm at a toss up between these two.

 

[ITJunkie]

Sophos here. Centrally managed, runs well and very quick with threat updates....FWIW

 

[dclive]

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[dclive]

Count another happy Symantec CE 10.1.5 customer.

When's 10.2 getting here, with full 64 bit client, non-Vista version (2003 server version)?