Anti-V - What do you use

[Mikey]

Scratch my earlier response. Our Sophos Enterprise Console won't find new machines anymore - so now I hate it!

[Sylv3r]

We are another Symantec Corporate school provided by our LEA. It does the job and for Free I cant complain. As part of the licence we are also allowed to provide copies to staff for installation at home.

[john]

Has anybody got a contact at Symantec I could give a prod for an evaluation kit? I have e-mailed them and they rang up over 2 months ago when I first started thinking about chaning, promissed me a kit in 48hrs, and still no kit If you have a contact I could prod, please can you let me know, PM is fine.

 

Thanks

[Richie1972]

We're currently using McAfee antivirus and it is crap (not using it through choice - it's paid for by LEA).

We also have McAfee Antivirus Enterprise 8, which we briefly used on our servers - until it completely screwed up.

We are temporarily using McAfe antivirus on servers until I can persuade the man who signs the cheques to buy the vastly superior Symantec Corporate for the servers.

Due to the price of Symantec Corp I reckon we'll have to suffer with McAfee on the workstations though

[free4440273]

esset's nod32: say goodbye to sophos once and for all...

[john]

Well after evaluating since the start of this thread, finding out that some companies are basically anti-contactable, and won't even point us to a disty to get pricing etc, we are either going to go with Sophos again (but on a 12 month licence to help us jump ship if the next version is worse than this one) or Trend Micro.

 

Talking to a few other schools and companies recently they also are looking at Trend Micro as a solution, or using them, so I am sitting down next week and going to see what final info I can get on Trend, its certainly cleaned our Fileservers up, Sophos is appauling at missing Java based viruses, we found 40 on the servers, some had been detectable for many months, so its showing its not good.

 

These were not mission stopping viruses, but Java Downloader ones, which could answer for strange profile issues and bloating of profiles for no reason, also the excess network traffic.

 

Also seems that Sophos needs full control over everything it wants to scan to be able to even see if there is a virus, which is never used to, it always used to scan them, but didn't manage to remove them.

 

Anyway, decision needs to be made next week, as we don't want to end up un-protected! I will let you all know what I do.