Sounds like an older version as I remember the push problem. I think we "solved" it with multiple pushes or was it hand installs? Most of the machines were local. We didn't see the update problems......
It did get better. I wouldn't recommend mcafee more for the AV being at best middle of the pack....... -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 8:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: The Security Earthquake That Nobody Felt We found that it didn't actually push the clients out as we wanted - it was quite erratic, and would fail more often than we could tolerate - and was *very* slow to update client definitions. The interface was not intuitive, either. It's been about 3 years since I worked with it, so it might have gotten better, but I still won't recommend it. Kurt On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 18:13, Mathew Shember <mathew.shem...@synopsys.com> wrote: > Really? > > We found ePO rather easy. What problems did you have with it? > > Vipre wasn't available back then so they went with SEP ;) > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 5:24 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: The Security Earthquake That Nobody Felt > > We had ePO - it was one of the driving reasons for us to abandon it. > The other reason was the unreasonable amount of resources the client sucked > out of the workstations. Yet another reason was the price - we got VIPRE > Enterprise for the renewal price of McAfee, and the renewal price on VIPRE > was hard to beat. > > Hard to say which reason topped the others - kind of a 3-way tie... > > Kurt > > On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:56, Mathew Shember <mathew.shem...@synopsys.com> > wrote: >> I guess the snark wasn't obvious. >> >> The AV is tolerable as long as you have ePO going. However, my >> "enlightenment" happened when there was a fast moving version of sdbot which >> snuck by and I had to user higher tiered support. They identified it with >> Kaspersky. >> >> We were going to use ironmail (another company) but decided against it after >> hearing the announcement..... >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 4:28 PM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: Re: The Security Earthquake That Nobody Felt >> >> Well, yes, actually, and they are part of Intel, and have been acquiring >> companies for themselves - for instance, Secure Computing a few years ago, >> for their Sidewinder firewalls (which are now McAfee Secure Enterprise >> Firewalls), among others. >> >> I still don't like their AV product, but they haven't yet ruined the >> firewall... >> >> Kurt >> >> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 15:57, Mathew Shember <mathew.shem...@synopsys.com> >> wrote: >>> Mcafee is stillll in business? >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com] >>> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 02:46 PM >>> To: NT System Admin Issues <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> >>> Subject: The Security Earthquake That Nobody Felt >>> >>> * The Security Earthquake That Nobody Felt >>> >>> Wow, this is actually major security news. I found this on the blog >>> from Coretrace, and they said: "This week, McAfee, one of the two >>> dominant forces in reactive, blacklist-based endpoint security, >>> actively and unequivocally endorsed Application Whitelisting. >>> Ironically, in hard coverage of Symantec's recent problems with >>> pcAnywhere, the industry is actively recommending application whitelisting >>> too." Here is the link: >>> http://www.coretraceblogs.com/2012-01/security-earthquake-that-nobod >>> y >>> - felt-mcafee-endorses-application-whitelisting/ >>> >>> So, what is the big news? It turns security on its head. Instead of >>> keeping bad code out, with application whitelisting (also known as >>> Application Control) you only allow known-good code to run. That's >>> really a 180, and very, very interesting from a system admin perspective. >>> >>> I have done some research in this area and have written a whitepaper >>> about whitelisting, and why as a system admin you should look into >>> this for the near future. This is a new security layer for your >>> 'defense-in-depth'. You will hear more from me about whitelisting this year: >>> http://www.knowbe4.com/resources/the-endpoint-security-advantages-of >>> - w hitelisting-a-whitepaper-for-system-administrators/ >>> >>> Warm regards, >>> >>> Stu >>> >>> >>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ >>> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >>> >>> --- >>> To manage subscriptions click here: >>> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >>> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com >>> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >>> >>> >>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ >>> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >>> >>> --- >>> To manage subscriptions click here: >>> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >>> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com >>> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >>> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ >> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ >> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
