Anti-Virus products
My current anti-virus products is coming to an end. Sophos, they are going to charge £3000 to renew for 1year. I have 60desktops and 10servers (including 2x exchange using neverfail)
Does anyone recomend any other products, (cheaper ones) I have always used Sophos in the past but this client does not have the budget or Sophos.
Thank you.
Does anyone recomend any other products, (cheaper ones) I have always used Sophos in the past but this client does not have the budget or Sophos.
Thank you.
Mcafee is a very good product with substantial discounts for the education sector - give them a try
I personaly recommend Trend Micro. Great centralized console, easy deployment. Most of educational institutions use it. Integrates well with deep freeze, in case of libraries with public internet access.
Hi, I have been using Symantec for a number of years and recently they came out with Symantec Endpoint.... it has a vastly improved centralised mangement and deployment console which can be fully customised to individual PCS needs.....
It comes with built in module of Proactive Threat Management and Network Threat Protection......
price wise, it works out to be around 20 Pounds per license.....
alternatively, you can consider Avast which has proved to be a reliable FOC AV product for home users for many years..... attached is the pricelist FYI
pricelistgbp-web.pdf
It comes with built in module of Proactive Threat Management and Network Threat Protection......
price wise, it works out to be around 20 Pounds per license.....
alternatively, you can consider Avast which has proved to be a reliable FOC AV product for home users for many years..... attached is the pricelist FYI
pricelistgbp-web.pdf
Every time I see some recommend Symantec, I invite them to step over to the special "Symantec Zone" (https://www.experts-exchange.com/Virus_and_Spyware/Anti-Virus/Anti-Virus/Symantec/viewOpenZoneQuestions.jsp?taid=3353) we have here at EE and help solve the (currently) 168 Open Questions, that no one can seem to fix.
Please take a long look around at the various IT forums at the huge variety of problems with Symantec products before ever considering them.
For pure protection (and price) on a network your size, I would recommend AVG (http://www.grisoft.com/) - simple install, configuration, and administration.
I used McAfee, Symantec, and Trend for a lot of years - with McAfee still being my choice for large networks, but for your size AVG should be fine. I don't know about any discounts available.
Please take a long look around at the various IT forums at the huge variety of problems with Symantec products before ever considering them.
For pure protection (and price) on a network your size, I would recommend AVG (http://www.grisoft.com/) - simple install, configuration, and administration.
I used McAfee, Symantec, and Trend for a lot of years - with McAfee still being my choice for large networks, but for your size AVG should be fine. I don't know about any discounts available.
someone here seems to have a deep prejudice against symantec.......
nonetheless, if you compare market share against problems faced, it is not difficult to understand the number of issues raised....
Virus Bulletin, a 3rd party antivirus testing company (http://www.virusbtn.com) shows McAfee with 26 Success and 18 Failure when tested for 100% detection versus the 33 Success and 6 Failure Symantec has recieved.... (hmmm...... imagine 40% failure to detect viruses)
the best being NOD32 (38 Success / 3 Failure)
however at the end of the day, i feel that it all boils down to how comfortable Carpe--Diem is with administrating the AV.....
nonetheless, if you compare market share against problems faced, it is not difficult to understand the number of issues raised....
Virus Bulletin, a 3rd party antivirus testing company (http://www.virusbtn.com) shows McAfee with 26 Success and 18 Failure when tested for 100% detection versus the 33 Success and 6 Failure Symantec has recieved.... (hmmm...... imagine 40% failure to detect viruses)
the best being NOD32 (38 Success / 3 Failure)
however at the end of the day, i feel that it all boils down to how comfortable Carpe--Diem is with administrating the AV.....
bdpsq,
Your post contains so many errors that I hardly know where to start.
First of all, are you another one of the Symantec employees who keeps coming in here to trumpet your product? We've had about half a dozen over the past couple of years - some who will admit it and some who pretend they are not.
I just checked and didn't see you posting any advice to all those (still) 168 members waiting for solutions. It is my personal philosophy to stand behind my recommendations - just to prove that I know something about what I say.
"Market Share" has nothing to do with the number of unsolved questions - it is the flawed mechanism used in your product of choice. NAV/SAV have dropped from over 80% of market share to less than 50% because there are better products available; and despite an overwhelming name recognition. They have trained the buyers to not use their products.
I strongly dispute your use of the word "prejudice".
My recommendation against NAV/SAV is based on many thousands of examples of personal experience, going back over 12 years of managing tens of thousands of systems in a wide variety of configurations - operating all over the world.
The bad experiences continue to this day with the absolute corruption of OS's by the various NAV/SAV products.
All of that, sir, is not "prejudice".
We could play 'dueling web-sites' about product evaluations, but my approach on EE is to use my actual knowledge and experience to help the Askers - not "Google".
I am a member of a wide variety of organizations and certified by numerous entities, so I understand 'product evaluations', and give them all of the weight they deserve.
At the end of the diem, each of us has to evaluate all of the information available and make a decision. My observations of recommendations here on EE has gone on for a long time and I would estimate that over the years, about 80% of the highest ranked Experts here on EE recommend something other than Symantec - a pretty sad record for the most widely used AV product on the planet.
Of course, the up-side to having all of those NAV/SAV users around is that now I get paid by the job and make a tidy little sum cleaning up computers and networks that have been destroyed by the lack of protection/OS malfunctions - courtesy of Symantec.
Your post contains so many errors that I hardly know where to start.
First of all, are you another one of the Symantec employees who keeps coming in here to trumpet your product? We've had about half a dozen over the past couple of years - some who will admit it and some who pretend they are not.
I just checked and didn't see you posting any advice to all those (still) 168 members waiting for solutions. It is my personal philosophy to stand behind my recommendations - just to prove that I know something about what I say.
"Market Share" has nothing to do with the number of unsolved questions - it is the flawed mechanism used in your product of choice. NAV/SAV have dropped from over 80% of market share to less than 50% because there are better products available; and despite an overwhelming name recognition. They have trained the buyers to not use their products.
I strongly dispute your use of the word "prejudice".
My recommendation against NAV/SAV is based on many thousands of examples of personal experience, going back over 12 years of managing tens of thousands of systems in a wide variety of configurations - operating all over the world.
The bad experiences continue to this day with the absolute corruption of OS's by the various NAV/SAV products.
All of that, sir, is not "prejudice".
We could play 'dueling web-sites' about product evaluations, but my approach on EE is to use my actual knowledge and experience to help the Askers - not "Google".
I am a member of a wide variety of organizations and certified by numerous entities, so I understand 'product evaluations', and give them all of the weight they deserve.
At the end of the diem, each of us has to evaluate all of the information available and make a decision. My observations of recommendations here on EE has gone on for a long time and I would estimate that over the years, about 80% of the highest ranked Experts here on EE recommend something other than Symantec - a pretty sad record for the most widely used AV product on the planet.
Of course, the up-side to having all of those NAV/SAV users around is that now I get paid by the job and make a tidy little sum cleaning up computers and networks that have been destroyed by the lack of protection/OS malfunctions - courtesy of Symantec.
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younghv,
why get so worked up? ..... its only a post voicing our different preferences.experiences with different software products :)
Just to answer you question, I am in no way related to Symantec(you may doubt all you want) And never have I mention that I am a Symantec expert.
I am just someone who wants to share my positive encounter with Symantec through my years of usage and administration..... (easy administration, does what it is meant to do:protecting the network, and great support)
hmm......well.... your post speaks pretty much on what you have vehemently denied..... nothing much needs to be said......
ChiefIT,
Thanks for sharing, those are really good articles.......
I totally agree with you that "best AV on the market is an educated user and educated administrator"
why get so worked up? ..... its only a post voicing our different preferences.experiences with different software products :)
Just to answer you question, I am in no way related to Symantec(you may doubt all you want) And never have I mention that I am a Symantec expert.
I am just someone who wants to share my positive encounter with Symantec through my years of usage and administration..... (easy administration, does what it is meant to do:protecting the network, and great support)
hmm......well.... your post speaks pretty much on what you have vehemently denied..... nothing much needs to be said......
ChiefIT,
Thanks for sharing, those are really good articles.......
I totally agree with you that "best AV on the market is an educated user and educated administrator"
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Take it from a Computer Fraud Victim>>
$40k later in Lawyer fees and fights with a bad credit report and 7 years of a bad credit report really makes you think of such things. The website is a web site the FBI computer fraud department recommended to me.
Oh, and Harry Hacker is probably worried about picking up that bar of soap he dropped right about now.
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I agree with ChiefIT, well put. AV product is never going to be 100% its just a last resort layer of protection.
Just for the record i choose on symantec because they offered me a very go deal to move to them. To be honest i couold not really see much difference between the big 4.
Just for the record i choose on symantec because they offered me a very go deal to move to them. To be honest i couold not really see much difference between the big 4.
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