Kaspersky vs Trend Micro Antivirus

Snibborg:

Any issue with licensing usually have to do with Trend locating and identifying itself to the reporting server.  If you are deploying machine images - you can't put Trend in the image.  You have to use a script or ghost task to call up the installer if you don't want to manually install it on each machine.  This works great because every machine we image calls up the installer off a network share which runs while the rest of the software is pushed through Symantec Ghost.

jameskeagie is your company in the US? If yes, how is the technical support? I am in the US.

Yes - we are in the U.S. - State gov't organization & the support has been mostly mediocre.  Haven't had too many reasons to call, but we did have an issue with a large scale deployment (what I was talking about before) where after installation (500+ systems) clients were not reporting to the database correctly.  However, it was resolved relatively quickly - and after spending time on the corporate support lines for both Kaspersky & Symantec in my time - I'd say none of them are that good - and Trend is no worse.  1/2 a day on the phone & issue was escalated pretty quickly - quickly got a tech on and found that Trend generates an ID for each client during install - so cloning the install in a deployment image doesn't work if you want to use the reporting functions.

Hope my input helped - I'd say for corporate use in my experience Trend is pretty solid.  

Oh James, where were you when I needed you?  Fancy jumping the pond?

I've used both Kapersky and Trend; Kapersky wins hands down in every area that I can imagine being tested.  Due to a grant, we were "given" copies of Trend Micro along with their server level application.  I'll admit some fault along the lines, but we were constantly down and rebuilding machines due to virus infections.  I wiped those grant machines out and put Kapersky on them and have not had a virus outbreak since.  BTW...running these in a 800 system network in a school district.

lancecurwensville - I don't know when you were using Trend - but active scanning is not as good as Kaspersky -you really have to schedule scans.  Also, the definitions a few years ago were not as good - but now Kaspersky has a higher CPU usage than I would like, and the definitions don't pick up nearly as much as it should - but when it does pick something up it really has a good removal rate.  I prefer Trend purely because it may not remove 100%, but at least will report back that something is there where others may miss it - allowing me to clean it either manually or with a different remote tool (most Malware is not removed well by either, but Trend will still identify it)

i now using the kaspersky in my office and it actually is a good antivirus and the licence fee is not too expensive, but the computer requirement for kaspersky will be a bit higher than normal antivirus, but overall it is good to use and the interface is very user friendly also it detection is very fast and the update is very often also. And as i know kaspersky has win a lot of award in the security area, u may try to find more information on the virus bulletin website - "http://www.virusbtn.com/index" and AV-Comparatives website - "http://www.av-comparatives.org/".