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Re: Different AV Prouducts
From: "ॐ aditya mukadam ॐ" <aditya.mukadam () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:57:59 +0530
Im using Avast (http://www.avast.com/). It detected viruses which other AV couldn't.You might wanna consider this one. Thanks, Aditya Govind Mukadam On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:55 PM, <dave_mikesch () baxter com> wrote:
I deal with Symantec every day managing several thousand systems running that very same version. (10.1.7.7000 works better...) No version of SAV, including SEP11 detects nearly as much as most of the competitors. So far this year I've submitted almost 500 undetected viruses to them - they rule about 25% of them as malware of any sort, while Sophos and AVG pick up about 60-80%. This is also with me having Platinum support and arguing with the reverse engineers.... I suggest AVG, Sophos, NOD32, or Kaspersky instead. Best Regards, Dave Mikesch, GCIH, GREM "Andy Cuff (Talisker)" <SecurityLists@se To curitywizardry.co <pthroumoulos () rochester rr com>, m> <security-basics () securityfocus com> Sent by: cc listbounce@securi tyfocus.com Subject RE: Different AV Prouducts 08/13/2008 11:06 AM I would strongly suggest reconsidering your options and escalating your issue with Symantec. You may face the same support issues with another AV vendor, in addition to trying to integrate a new AV into your enterprise. I'm not advocating Symantec over Sophos or Kapersky, I'm just considering the impact of the change. I Regards Andy Cuff Computer Network Defence Ltd www.SecurityWizardry.comI was wondering if anybody could provide me with any positive information about switching from Symantec Corporate Edition (10.1.4.4000) to any other AV products. I have looked at a couple different solutions but am by no means a security guru and would appreciate any feedback I could get that would help persuade me to switch to a different solution. The two other products that I am considering are Kaspersky or Sophos. Reason I picked these two is that I have seen quite a few emails bounced back and forth about the quality of both of these products compared to Symantec. Obviously all AV products are going to be better at certain things than others such as detection and removal. All I am looking for is a product that I can implement on about 180+ clients and about 30 servers that will be easily managed and not have too large of a foot print and I do not want to have to visit every client to remove the old AV before deploying the new solution. One of the reasons I would like to switch from Symantec to another product is that just recently I had to deal with their tech support for an issue we were experiencing on our clients. My experience with tech support has left me very jaded as it took them almost three weeks to figure out the problem. The issue we were experiencing was when a user would log into their desktop explorer.exe would not load and they would only see their wallpaper (All dell machines) The solution to the issue was to turn of "tamper protection" on all the clients, though this did solve the issue I am still a little concerned about the fact that you need to turn off any component of any AV product. I also feel like Symantec does not do the best job at detection of other types of malware besides viruses. Several times this year I had several infected clients that I had to rebuild because Symantec did not detect the issues till it was too late to do anything. If anybody could point me in the right direction to getting more info on a better AV solution than Symantec I would greatly appreciate it.The information transmitted is intended only for the person(s)or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or legally privileged material. Delivery of this message to any person other than the intended recipient(s) is not intended in any way to waive privilege or confidentiality. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of , or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you receive this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. For Translation: http://www.baxter.com/email_disclaimer
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