Vipre and Kaspersky and AVG
We use AVG Antivirus Business, but soon they will switch all accounts to Cloud based. I don't like cloud based. So I started looking at others, now I downloaded and testing Vipre Business Antivirus. I installed agents on three computers, need to see how it works for a week.
Admin console looks good, easy to navigate.
I can install Vipre agent on clients without modifying underlying Windows firewall.
It finishes manual scans quickly.
After a few hours of testing, it seems blocking, but it just passed through some malware websites that AVG detected.
But I noticed after installing Vipre, one of computer (Windows 8.1, AMD FX-8150, AsRock motherboard), didn't like to boot, it went to Windows Repair. Then it booted up, I restarted PC again, it failed to boot for 3 times, but finally did. Also, Outlook seems hanging from time to time. I disabled email scanning on the policy, it's ok now.
If you currently use Vipre at your network to cover workstations and servers, can you share your experience? How about Kaspersky if you used?
I also tested free version of Bitdefender, it also just passes through which AVG detected problems. AV-Compartives show Bitdefender, Kaspersky, Vipre all ranked higher than AVG, but I think it's just for antiviru testing they conducted, not spyware, malware mostly spread by visiting websites.
The reason I chose to test Vipre was, its performance consuming less resource, and that part seems true. How about Kaspersky?
Admin console looks good, easy to navigate.
I can install Vipre agent on clients without modifying underlying Windows firewall.
It finishes manual scans quickly.
After a few hours of testing, it seems blocking, but it just passed through some malware websites that AVG detected.
But I noticed after installing Vipre, one of computer (Windows 8.1, AMD FX-8150, AsRock motherboard), didn't like to boot, it went to Windows Repair. Then it booted up, I restarted PC again, it failed to boot for 3 times, but finally did. Also, Outlook seems hanging from time to time. I disabled email scanning on the policy, it's ok now.
If you currently use Vipre at your network to cover workstations and servers, can you share your experience? How about Kaspersky if you used?
I also tested free version of Bitdefender, it also just passes through which AVG detected problems. AV-Compartives show Bitdefender, Kaspersky, Vipre all ranked higher than AVG, but I think it's just for antiviru testing they conducted, not spyware, malware mostly spread by visiting websites.
The reason I chose to test Vipre was, its performance consuming less resource, and that part seems true. How about Kaspersky?
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I'm evaluating Kaspersky, I'll post the result
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First of all, Kaspersky has more complex interface, it gives flexibility for administrators to select what they want. But when scheduling scanning, there's no way you can give rights to users to stop/pause/resume scanning.
For scanning, the performance is worst among AVG, Vipre, Bitdefender, Avast with default policy. I only changed default scanning setting without 'scan removable storage'. Then when scheduled scan launches, the CPU time stays 80-100% consistent for 1 and half hour of scanning on low end computer (Core 2 Due, 2GB ram). Even checking 'Concede to other applications' does't help on second scanning. I couldn't stop/pause scanning because Kaspersky doesn't allow administrator to give rights to user for such action in policy setting. I don't agree that they assume scanning is the higest priority at the moment in business. When they tailored all complicate settings on administrator interface, administrator can give right to stop/pause/resume scanning, which is odd.
I'm going with AVG
For scanning, the performance is worst among AVG, Vipre, Bitdefender, Avast with default policy. I only changed default scanning setting without 'scan removable storage'. Then when scheduled scan launches, the CPU time stays 80-100% consistent for 1 and half hour of scanning on low end computer (Core 2 Due, 2GB ram). Even checking 'Concede to other applications' does't help on second scanning. I couldn't stop/pause scanning because Kaspersky doesn't allow administrator to give rights to user for such action in policy setting. I don't agree that they assume scanning is the higest priority at the moment in business. When they tailored all complicate settings on administrator interface, administrator can give right to stop/pause/resume scanning, which is odd.
I'm going with AVG
Which version are you using? In Security Center 10 I can set up user access, which I don't allow for most machines. I can even hide the icon from the users. I also have a password set to override scans on the local machine if I need to.
Are you scanning an infected machine?
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Kaspersky Security Endpoint for business -Select.
No, the scan was done for twice believing the first scan may take longer, but there was no difference.
No, the scan was done for twice believing the first scan may take longer, but there was no difference.
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I created another folders and put some downloaded programs which was detected for trojans in a certain folder. It's about 30 trojans and others. And several malicious websites.
I think I will test all of them in market.
Testing down with AVG business antivirus, Vipre business antiviru, Kaspersky endpoint business select.
Now, I'm about to do Trendmicro
I think I will test all of them in market.
Testing down with AVG business antivirus, Vipre business antiviru, Kaspersky endpoint business select.
Now, I'm about to do Trendmicro
Even checking 'Concede to other applications' does't help on second scanning.
this setting only makes a difference when you actually use something else. it makes the task run low priority but it will still use 100% of the available horsepower.
some of the other antivirus probably use 50% because they use a single CPU
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also note that scans can be run during non-office hours, and that a complete daily scan is mostly useless and has a HUGE impact on the longevity of your machines whatever solution you choose.
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if you actually run comparisons, feel free to post the results. don't forget avira in your tests.
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I think I have to actually set up another seperate environment to test Kaspersky.
Viruses that it didn't find while AVG finds, were detected during scheduled deep scans. I wondered why quick scan finished too and too fast (2minutes). I didn't expect much from quick scan, but now deep scan takes 80 minutes and found 13 trojans and others I expected it to find. It consumes 20-30% resources of my pc comparing nothing to quick scan, but quick scan didn't find none of virus. So, it seems as going for deep scan once it's installed, then quick scan every day and deep scan once a week or daily over night. But still Web access monitoring for spyware seems weak...which is the most of cases where PC gets infected.
Looking back Vipre edition feature list they have again, Vipre Antivirus Business doesnt' have 'Bad Website Blocking' and 'advanced thread monitoring' which Vipre Antivirus Business Premium has. In terms of cost, maybe AVG business antivirus does what high tier edition of other products.