Anti-Virus thoughts and opinions

[Guest ~~Alan~~]

I'm probably going to start some heated discussions (I may want to talk

about politics instead) but I'm interested to read about anyone's

experiences with enterprise (not stand-alone please) anti-virus solutions

from Norton, Sophos, Mcaffee, etc.

 

Thanks,

~alan

[Guest philo]

Re: Anti-Virus thoughts and opinions

 

 

"~~Alan~~" <a.shepro@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> I'm probably going to start some heated discussions (I may want to talk

> about politics instead) but I'm interested to read about anyone's

> experiences with enterprise (not stand-alone please) anti-virus solutions

> from Norton, Sophos, Mcaffee, etc.

>

> Thanks,

> ~alan

>

>

 

I have never worked on a machine with Sophos

 

but have had to repair many machines with both Norton and Mcaffee.

 

Even though the machines had updated virus definitions, they still got

infected.

The unfortunate fact is that the "wonderful" folks who write the malware,

seem to enjoy most...attacking the "big name" virus checkers.

 

Additionally, Norton and Mcaffee are some of the biggest resource hogs out

there.

 

If you need to run a virus checker on your own home machine,

you'd be better off with the free version of Avast or AVG

[Guest Lem]

Re: Anti-Virus thoughts and opinions

 

~~Alan~~ wrote:

> I'm probably going to start some heated discussions (I may want to talk

> about politics instead) but I'm interested to read about anyone's

> experiences with enterprise (not stand-alone please) anti-virus solutions

> from Norton, Sophos, Mcaffee, etc.

>

> Thanks,

> ~alan

>

>

 

From the IT dept's point of view, such apps permit centralized control,

which at least means that IT can ensure that users are up-to-date both

with respect to virus definitions and application revisions. McAfee, and

I believe Symantec as well, also can be installed so that the client has

no access to the "control panel," and thus can't reconfigure how the a/v

behaves. This can be a problem if the client wants to temporarily

disable a/v scanning in order, for example, to install some app or

update. But then again, IT probably doesn't want clients installing

their own apps.

 

As far as resource hogging, Symantec a/v Corp Ed. may be a little better

than consumer Norton a/v, but its startup scan can be a real PITA.

 

--

Lem -- MS-MVP

 

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[Guest smlunatick]

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On Oct 8, 11:41 am, "~~Alan~~" <a.she...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm probably going to start some heated discussions (I may want to talk

> about politics instead) but I'm interested to read about anyone's

> experiences with enterprise (not stand-alone please) anti-virus solutions

> from Norton, Sophos, Mcaffee, etc.

>

> Thanks,

> ~alan

 

Sophos -- I used it years ago. It was fast in scanning and shielding

but at the time, they were not able to remove the viruses. They

recommneded to delete all infected files and restore from backup.

 

McAfee -- Very slow. Let viruses thru sometimes

 

Norton -- Not a business grade anti-virus. Symantec Corporate

edition.

Also slow.

[Guest Anteaus]

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AVG for networks, mostly. We disable the link scanner and email scanning, as

we user server-based mail scanning. One advantage is that V8 detects spyware

as well as viruses, which most AV products do not. Does have some performance

impact, but good detection rate.

 

Sophos is good, have that on one supported site.

 

NOD32 (Eset) and Avira are also good for standalone use, not sure if they

support centralised updating, though.

 

Norton - useless.

McAfee - not much better.

 

 

"~~Alan~~" wrote:

> I'm probably going to start some heated discussions (I may want to talk

> about politics instead) but I'm interested to read about anyone's

> experiences with enterprise (not stand-alone please) anti-virus solutions

> from Norton, Sophos, Mcaffee, etc.

>

> Thanks,

> ~alan

>

>

>

[Guest Leythos]

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In article <eHjw0JTKJHA.456@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>, a.shepro@gmail.com

says...

> I'm probably going to start some heated discussions (I may want to talk

> about politics instead) but I'm interested to read about anyone's

> experiences with enterprise (not stand-alone please) anti-virus solutions

> from Norton, Sophos, Mcaffee, etc.

 

We have about 80 sites, used about everything on the planet, each

solution has its problems with new releases and ability to detect new

malware.

 

We currently use Symantec Corp Ed 10.2 on most networks, Symantec End

Point Protection on some, stopped using the other vendors products once

Symantec lowered the minimum license purchase to 5.

 

We also implement very strict security settings in the Firewall

Appliances and almost no user is a local administrator on their company

computer.

 

In all my years, not a single managed client has had their network

compromised.

 

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[Guest Leythos]

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In article <OditSaVKJHA.5904@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>, lemp40@unknownhost

says...

> As far as resource hogging, Symantec a/v Corp Ed. may be a little better

> than consumer Norton a/v, but its startup scan can be a real PITA.

>

 

You can disable them, as we do in most networks.

 

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[Guest Leythos]

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In article <66CF0558-2CC3-4E8B-9F93-C9B0E3912557@microsoft.com>,

Anteaus@discussions.microsoft.com says...

> AVG for networks

>

 

90+% of all compromised networks and systems that we see are running

AVG.

 

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[Guest sgopus]

RE: Anti-Virus thoughts and opinions

 

Something I discovered recently, I had purchased KIS and been using it for

years, and THOUGHT I had Virus coverage as well, apparently not, as KIS

doesn't automatically include the Antivirus portion, and when I asked for

help to activate the Antivirus portion, from Kaspersky they have ignored me.

 

"~~Alan~~" wrote:

> I'm probably going to start some heated discussions (I may want to talk

> about politics instead) but I'm interested to read about anyone's

> experiences with enterprise (not stand-alone please) anti-virus solutions

> from Norton, Sophos, Mcaffee, etc.

>

> Thanks,

> ~alan

>

>

>

[Guest EncinoMan]

Re: Anti-Virus thoughts and opinions

 

On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 06:41:42 -0400, "~~Alan~~" <a.shepro@gmail.com>

wrote:

>I'm probably going to start some heated discussions (I may want to talk

>about politics instead) but I'm interested to read about anyone's

>experiences with enterprise (not stand-alone please) anti-virus solutions

>from Norton, Sophos, Mcaffee, etc.

>

>Thanks,

>~alan

>

Why bring this up here? What A/V program you choose is just personal

preference.

 

Ask elsewhere

[Guest George]

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"EncinoMan" <none@nobody.net> wrote in message

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> On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 06:41:42 -0400, "~~Alan~~" <a.shepro@gmail.com>

> wrote:

>

>>I'm probably going to start some heated discussions (I may want to talk

>>about politics instead) but I'm interested to read about anyone's

>>experiences with enterprise (not stand-alone please) anti-virus solutions

>>from Norton, Sophos, Mcaffee, etc.

>>

>>Thanks,

>>~alan

>>

> Why bring this up here? What A/V program you choose is just personal

> preference.

>

> Ask elsewhere

 

Darn you are funny! :-) some people just don't have anything else to do do

they????

[Guest EncinoMan]

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On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 10:51:31 -0400, "George" <pop@email.com> wrote:

>

>"EncinoMan" <none@nobody.net> wrote in message

>news:71kqe4p9833pji3n3cfc8fdof611k0jbht@4ax.com...

>> On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 06:41:42 -0400, "~~Alan~~" <a.shepro@gmail.com>

>> wrote:

>>

>>>I'm probably going to start some heated discussions (I may want to talk

>>>about politics instead) but I'm interested to read about anyone's

>>>experiences with enterprise (not stand-alone please) anti-virus solutions

>>>from Norton, Sophos, Mcaffee, etc.

>>>

>>>Thanks,

>>>~alan

>>>

>> Why bring this up here? What A/V program you choose is just personal

>> preference.

>>

>> Ask elsewhere

>

>Darn you are funny! :-) some people just don't have anything else to do do

>they????

>

 

You mean besides ask stupid off topic questions in groups they don't

belong in? Then yes, I agree with you.

[Guest Jason]

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I've gone from AVG to Avast - AVG wouldn't update and also 'try' to update

at a certain tiem each day.

"philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote in message

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>

> "~~Alan~~" <a.shepro@gmail.com> wrote in message

> news:eHjw0JTKJHA.456@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

>> I'm probably going to start some heated discussions (I may want to talk

>> about politics instead) but I'm interested to read about anyone's

>> experiences with enterprise (not stand-alone please) anti-virus solutions

>> from Norton, Sophos, Mcaffee, etc.

>>

>> Thanks,

>> ~alan

>>

>>

>

> I have never worked on a machine with Sophos

>

> but have had to repair many machines with both Norton and Mcaffee.

>

> Even though the machines had updated virus definitions, they still got

> infected.

> The unfortunate fact is that the "wonderful" folks who write the malware,

> seem to enjoy most...attacking the "big name" virus checkers.

>

> Additionally, Norton and Mcaffee are some of the biggest resource hogs out

> there.

>

> If you need to run a virus checker on your own home machine,

> you'd be better off with the free version of Avast or AVG

>

>