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Antivirus Vendors Tesdall 05-28-2008
Posted by Don on June 10, 2008, 3:03 pm
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AVG!

--
Cordially,

Donald W. Plezia

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> > Dave Budd wrote:
> > >> Tesdall wrote:
> > >>> I recenelty just migrated 300 computers from Norton Corp version 9
> > >>> to Trend Micro office scan 7.0. We updated Office scan to version
> > >>> 8.5 and lost some compents (Email Scanning, could not install over
> > >>> a website that we where able to before the upgrade). We are now in
> > >>> the market again for antivirus products.
>
> > >>> Can you tell me what vendor you use and if you had a Good / Bad
> > >>> experince with them.
>
> > >>> Please respond only if you have a Server - Client Flavor of a
> > >>> product and your product scans emails (POP3 / IMAPI).
>
> > >>> Example - Norton Corp 10 - love it - why? Norton Corp 10 - hate it
> > >>> - why?
>
> > >> I don't like Norton at home but at the office we use Norton
> > >> Corporate. Not sure what version, but its kinda old. Since we had
> > >> so many users on laptops, and on the road for weeks at a time, we
> > >> normally installed it
> > >> as 'unmanaged', as client managed. So we basically did not use the
> > >> corporate concept.
>
> > >> Which brings up the question: Why does it have to be a corporate
> > >> version?
>
> > >> If AVG or Avast work good for home users, why not at the office?
>
> > > At our site, central management matters because, basically, users are
> > > dumb. They don't notice if updates are failing; maybe not even if the
> > > resident scanner gets disabled. And they change things!
> > > Central management lets us watch for that kind of stuff, and we can
> > > see what's being attacked and by what. Most of the new versions of
> > > corp level stuff also integrates with Cisco routers to give NAC,
> > > which is invaluable where there are devices that might connect to our
> > > network after some time away so that they can't be trusted.
>
> > They are AVG products with server based management control of
> > workstations....
>
> > Gaz- Hide quoted text -
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> > - Show quoted text -
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> thanks for the update, i asked them to contact me... that was a week
> ago.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Now two weeks ago, they must not care....they are off my list.

If you had to choose between Symantec / MaCaffe / Trend Micro (corp
editions) what would you choose?



Posted by Tesdall on June 23, 2008, 2:24 pm
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> AVG!
>
> --
> Cordially,
>
> Donald W. Plezia
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > > Dave Budd wrote:
> > > >> Tesdall wrote:
> > > >>> I recenelty just migrated 300 computers from Norton Corp version 9=

> > > >>> to Trend Micro office scan 7.0. We updated Office scan to version
> > > >>> 8.5 and lost some compents (Email Scanning, could not install over=

> > > >>> a website that we where able to before the upgrade). We are now in=

> > > >>> the market again for antivirus products.
>
> > > >>> Can you tell me what vendor you use and if you had a Good / Bad
> > > >>> experince with them.
>
> > > >>> Please respond only if you have a Server - Client Flavor of a
> > > >>> product and your product scans emails (POP3 / IMAPI).
>
> > > >>> Example - Norton Corp 10 - love it - why? Norton Corp 10 - hate it=

> > > >>> - why?
>
> > > >> I don't like Norton at home but at the office we use Norton
> > > >> Corporate. Not sure what version, but its kinda old. Since we had
> > > >> so many users on laptops, and on the road for weeks at a time, we
> > > >> normally installed it
> > > >> as 'unmanaged', as client managed. So we basically did not use the
> > > >> corporate concept.
>
> > > >> Which brings up the question: Why does it have to be a corporate
> > > >> version?
>
> > > >> If AVG or Avast work good for home users, why not at the office?
>
> > > > At our site, central management matters because, basically, users ar=
e
> > > > dumb. They don't notice if updates are failing; maybe not even if th=
e
> > > > resident scanner gets disabled. And they change things!
> > > > Central management lets us watch for that kind of stuff, and we can
> > > > see what's being attacked and by what. Most of the new versions of
> > > > corp level stuff also integrates with Cisco routers to give NAC,
> > > > which is invaluable where there are devices that might connect to ou=
r
> > > > network after some time away so that they can't be trusted.
>
> > > They are AVG products with server based management control of
> > > workstations....
>
> > > Gaz- Hide quoted text -
>
> > > - Show quoted text -
>
> > thanks for the update, i asked them to contact me... that was a week
> > ago.- Hide quoted text -
>
> > - Show quoted text -
>
> Now two weeks ago, they must not care....they are off my list.
>
> If you had to choose between Symantec / MaCaffe / Trend Micro (corp
> editions) what would you choose?- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

I had to setup AVG corp edition and it was an awful experience. What
do they offer that would make me want to reconcider?

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