Originally posted by: kojak61
We have Mcafee now and it sucks. Does not detect much and having trouble with updating.
Originally posted by: tbird2340
Giving a bump to this thread.. We've used CA for 6+ years.. Currently using Etrust ITM 8.1 on about 1,000 nodes (Windows 2003, Windows XP, and Exchange 2003). Our maintenance is up and instead of renewing I'm looking to switch.. We've had A LOT of issues over the years with them and I'm not looking to give them more of our money! So to the op.. Fair warning.. STAY AWAY FROM CA!
That being said.. Evaluating other solutions is daunting. There are just so many out there now. Kaspersky, Sophos, NOD32, AVG, Avira, just to name a few.. I want one that is:
* Centrally managed / easily manageable
* Remote install
* AV AND AntiSpyware / malware
Any recommendations on where to start? I've downloaded (but haven't installed yet) Kaspersky and Sophos.
Originally posted by: tbird2340
Giving a bump to this thread.. We've used CA for 6+ years.. Currently using Etrust ITM 8.1 on about 1,000 nodes (Windows 2003, Windows XP, and Exchange 2003). Our maintenance is up and instead of renewing I'm looking to switch.. We've had A LOT of issues over the years with them and I'm not looking to give them more of our money! So to the op.. Fair warning.. STAY AWAY FROM CA!
That being said.. Evaluating other solutions is daunting. There are just so many out there now. Kaspersky, Sophos, NOD32, AVG, Avira, just to name a few.. I want one that is:
* Centrally managed / easily manageable
* Remote install
* AV AND AntiSpyware / malware
Any recommendations on where to start? I've downloaded (but haven't installed yet) Kaspersky and Sophos.
Originally posted by: Chiefcrowe
I can tell you this much, I've used sophos and I don't think it's that good. it doesn't rate among the best either. i've seen several issues where it finds something and then you can't take any action on it, or it doesn't find what it's supposed to at all!
Originally posted by: palladium
My University uses Sophos, and as an end user ( the university has license for students to use Sophos AV for their personal computers) I find it much better compared to my friends ( who are not aware of this licensing scheme) who use Norton 2008 or McAfee. I worked in the IT dept. last year and from what I gather, central admin is a breeze, not to mention hourly updates and reasonably good detection rates.
How much disk space are you seeing used on the management server? A client handed me the software and wanted it installed. AFTER I got it functioning, I did some more reading and found reports of it eventually using 10 GB or even (one person) 20 GB of disk space on the server, due to the way it stored virus definitions.Originally posted by: Chiefcrowe
Also, the performance hit is minimal on my system. I don't even notice it really even when scanning in the background. It feels similar to version 10 in that way.