FN-GM Posted January 15, 2009 Posted January 15, 2009 I haven't had a problem with Sophos and the CPU. What spec are they?
Kitkatninja Posted January 15, 2009 Posted January 15, 2009 I have Panda at our school & it's been great, didn't like Sophos as on Celerons it slowed them down quite alot. AVG Network edition is ok, but not very friendly when it comes to upgrading between major versions (on the server, client is not problem). -ken
Simcfc73 Posted January 15, 2009 Posted January 15, 2009 I use Sophos and have done for years, it works for me and its very cheap
djdohboy Posted January 15, 2009 Posted January 15, 2009 Kaspersky for us and I love it, it replaced sophis on our network and imediatly picked up stuff sophos had missed. Brilliant
towen Posted January 15, 2009 Author Posted January 15, 2009 (edited) What issues are you having? We use roaming profiles and haven't had a problem. Mostly corupting users roaming profiles and leaving half a profile on a workstation... need I go on We've started with the first release of Symantec Endpoint Protection Suite some nearly a year ago and we upgraded to MR4 just before christmas... still having issues though Hence now we are looking at switching to another Anti-Virus Product to replace it.. Looks like Sophos is a no go aswell; going on the views... Edited January 16, 2009 by towen
lionsl2005 Posted January 15, 2009 Posted January 15, 2009 here NOD32. works great. easy to use n very less resourse, recomended.
bio Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 +1 NOD32 we use nod32 for many years now.... simply the best AV i have seen in my 10 year IT carreer bio...
andy_d Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 We'll be swapping to NOD32 on our Admin Domain in April, can get a great price on it with being educational. Probably stick with Symantec Corporate on our CC3 domain, purely because of the whole RM thing etc.
AngryTechnician Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 Mostly corupting users roaming profiles and leaving half a profile on a workstation... need I go on No, you need not. We had the exact same issue.
AndyD Posted January 19, 2009 Posted January 19, 2009 We use Sophos at our school as it is what our LEA purchased. Don't have any problems with it and don't find it to be a 'resource hog' at all. However, I would recommend Kaspersky, use it at home and would like it if we could purchase it
SpuffMonkey Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 +1 NOD32 we use nod32 for many years now.... simply the best AV i have seen in my 10 year IT carreer bio... Whats the administrative side like for a networked install?
andyrite Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 How does it cope with imaging machines? +1 for I hate sophos!
dirtydog Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 uh oh someone has just ordered Sophos for us hopefully it will be ok. Moving from Symantec
mattx Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 uh oh someone has just ordered Sophos for us hopefully it will be ok. Moving from Symantec I can tell you now it won't. Sorry.
PcDude Posted January 21, 2009 Posted January 21, 2009 (edited) I can tell you now it won't. Sorry. I'd be interested to know what you use? What's so bad about Sophos anyway? I think it's quite good but you've got a real downer on it? Edited January 21, 2009 by PcDude
Dos_Box Posted January 21, 2009 Posted January 21, 2009 The previous version of Sophos had 'issues'. Actually, it had lots of 'issues' The current version seems quite stable and pleasent actually, but central management could be better.
Messa Posted January 21, 2009 Posted January 21, 2009 I wouldn't recomend Kaspersky from all the hassle we have had with it If you think sophos is resource hungry, give kaspersky a whirl
mattx Posted January 21, 2009 Posted January 21, 2009 I'd be interested to know what you use? What's so bad about Sophos anyway? I think it's quite good but you've got a real downer it? Heh, you don't know the half of it !! It's a resouce hog. The management system of it is a joke, for a simple bit of software they have made it overly complicated. How many services ? How many IDs does it create ? Too many false positives. Updates are slow. Management front end showing wrong information. Not actually detecting and dealing with infections. And of course when it was last called it a pile of poo poo by someone Edugeek was threatened with court action. Sophos apologises for going legal on school techies ? The Register Sophos is cheap for a reason......you figure it out. As for what AV solution I think is best ? For me it has to be Trend - if you shop around you will get a good deal and even part payment back on your exsisting AV solution if you are stuck in a deal. But as you say some people like Sophos, some however have seen the light and tend to agree with myself and have moved away to other AV solutions. NOD & Kaspersky seem to be other Admin's favorites at the moment.
PcDude Posted January 21, 2009 Posted January 21, 2009 ...some however have seen the light and tend to agree with myself and have moved away to other AV solutions. NOD & Kaspersky seem to be other Admin's favorites at the moment. All I can see is that no one can agree around here. The best solution is as clear as mud. If someone had to choose an AV solution from the postings on here they might just shoot themselves for a short, pain free death. That article shows Sophos apologising for their mistake. To err is human to forgive is divine?
mattx Posted January 21, 2009 Posted January 21, 2009 All I can see is that no one can agree around here. The best solution is as clear as mud. If someone had to choose an AV solution from the postings on here they might just shoot themselves for a short, pain free death. That article shows Sophos apologising for their mistake. To err is human to forgive is divine? Well with a questions such as this thread, is like asking whats better, PCs or MACS ? Everyone knows it's PCs but you will get some 'odd balls' stating that anything Apple related is good..... Of course you will get people's different answers as there are many many different products so no one will agree, it's not about everyone NOT agreeing, it's about people 'experiences with AV products and what they would purchase..... isn't it ?' I don't really care to tell you the truth as I have drank far too much this evening.... As for the article, shocking. 1
tech_guy Posted January 21, 2009 Posted January 21, 2009 (edited) Ahem, to change the subject slightly - for home use I use Kaspersky on my Windows XP and Vista machines and I have had no issues with it. Today I just picked up a 3 user version of [ame=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kaspersky-Internet-Security-3-Desktop-Subscription/dp/B001ANDJLS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=software&qid=1232576556&sr=8-1]Kaspersky 2009 from Amazon[/ame] for £17.36. Edited January 21, 2009 by tech_guy
contink Posted January 21, 2009 Posted January 21, 2009 (edited) All I can see is that no one can agree around here. The best solution is as clear as mud. If someone had to choose an AV solution from the postings on here they might just shoot themselves for a short, pain free death. LOL, opinions are like... erm.. "Elbows".. everyone has one, or even two... No, wait this analogy isn't working... but you get the idea.. That article shows Sophos apologising for their mistake. To err is human to forgive is divine? Very human of them... It was only when someone in the education sales team realised what they were doing to their marketing campaign that the idiot legal team was sat on. It wasn't altruistic, of that I'm fairly sure... However this might seem like a Sophos bashing exercise so I'll expand on my reasons for eskewing Sophos. It is indeed more resource hungry than you might like.. Not to the extent it was but still, not lean and mean by any stretch. In the wireless environment I set up recently it was responsible for 1 in every 4 or 5 laptops locking up whenever an update was pushed out. In itself the key issue was the WLAN was losing packets but Sophos failed utterly to cope and in a classroom of 20 laptops with 4 freezing it killed lessons dead. Usually half of the freezers came back after about 4 or 5 minutes but the others needed a hard reboot. This same "freezing" issue is essentially repeated whenever Sophos goes for a major version update and unfortunately Sophos gives no warning or indication to the user as to what's happening, it again, just locks the user out. In ever instance of "freeze" the user then goes into "WTF mode" (ie: click, click, CLIIKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK WTF is wrong with this machine!) and then it locks up good and proper. User fault?... erm.. 10% if that IMHO. Central control of actual cleanup operations is just plain wrong. Sophos can be set to be pro-active and clean things up as it goes but this takes some doing. Instead what you usually get is a polite "warning" that a virus has tried to get in or has succeeded and Sophos has done naff all about it. By design maybe but not exactly intuitive and the process for removing any virus issues is so elongated (involving multiple scans, which again lock up the machine, etc..) as to make a re-image the only really time effective option. If I was given the choice of Sophos or nothing I'd take Sophos but when you offer me Avast (which I'm familiar with), a central command system that makes sense, albeit with a learning curve and then tell me it'll cost about £200 a year more for 80 machines and 3 servers (@ 3 year subscription, educational rate) then I'm going to tell Sophos to jump in the lake because the cost in tech time on site and teacher frustration is just not worth the £100 a year price tag. There now... biased? Not really... I think of it as experienced in ways I'd rather not be. Nuff said, time for my meds and bed Edited January 21, 2009 by contink
AndyD Posted January 21, 2009 Posted January 21, 2009 Well all I can say is thankfully I have had none of these issues that are mentioned with Sophos and although I persoanlly wouldn't choose it, I have no complaints from using it.
TimJing Posted January 27, 2009 Posted January 27, 2009 I would not recommend Symantec SAV 10.17. We have had a ton of issues with: 1. Clients stop communicating/update dat files with the Server. 2. Client corruption 3. Clients not upgrading properly from Ver 9 4. Server mis-reporting AV updates and version. That along with issues with NoNav not always working the way it should.
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