Aah good day to bring up Kaspersky. They've pushed an updated module to us over night and it's causing the Kaspersky process to crash on a lot of our workstations whenever they now try to update. We had a similar situation about 7 months ago where an application patch went out with a problem that caused quite a bit of chaos on machines that picked up the update.
Other then that (!) its not been too bad for us. Running on about 600 machines, we've got most of the components turned off (we're not running Antihacker, Antispam , Antivirus for mail), so what's left is reasonably small in footprint. I think Kaspersky have one of the most frequent definition updates in the business? We have had a few false positives come through in the last year. New version coming out in December, along with a new Admin Kit, which I'm hoping is a good improvement over what we have at the moment. It doesn't handle Master/Slave configurations so well, with a fairly messy directory structure resulting from it. Has improved in the last year or so, but still not as clean as it should be. I got the impression that they first built the antivirus part, then started selling to enterprises, then had to come up with the management kit as an after thought wedged on the end. Having said that, pushing out to new clients is reasonably easy, just drop in to the right folder and it'll go away and do it, and invoke the right policy. We'll be evaluating Vipre when we get closer to our subscription renewal time though. From: Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 August 2008 16:51 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Corporate antivirus recommendation Hi folks, I know this is not an unusual request, but just thought I might get some updated opinions from people. I'm thinking of re-evaluating our allegiance to Trend Micro for desktop antivirus. Not that they've done anything wrong, just think it's time to take a look around and see if newer or better things are out there. My top three requirements would be: 1) Excellent threat detection record and frequent updates to threat definitions. 2) Good admin interface with easy and reliable remote installs. 3) Good deep scanning ability of clients with a real-time scan that doesn't hog resources. I've heard good things about Kaspersky. Anyone have thoughts about going in that direction? And yes, Stu, I know you will recommend Vipre... <g>. Just looking for some unbiased user opinions. Feel free to email me off-list if more comfortable. Thanks, Evan === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
