Greg, Thanks. I will check into that issue of excluding apps, and pinged the lead dev and support. The feature is there and should be able to be made to work. We buillt CounterSpy Enterprise and its next incarnation VIPRE top-down with the admin in mind from day one. "By admins for admins" Warm regards, Stu
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 8:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation We have Vipre running at 6 sites right now. 3 of them direct replacements from Symantec, 1 from Trend though and 2 new installs. Small enough to just manually remove from clients, we are going to be rolling out to a 225 node network in about a month but I am testing the uninstall via the .msi so I can remove and then reinstall automatically. So far we have had very few issues. Only main one I know of was the missing ability to exclude specific types of known apps, like VNC or the like. Weird issue, could not see it from server but from workstation. Stu could probably comment on this better. Just in testing, we took 3 workstations of various speed/memory. All 3 had Symantec Corporate 9 on it with latest updates. Upon removal the system speed was noticeably better. After installing Vipre, the system speed was still the same as if we installed nothing. All machines had 1 GB of ram minimum, some were P4, one was a Pentium D, the other a new Core2Duo. Mgmt has been a snap, a few working issues and features that appear to be redundant but in fact work for difference results. Something they are already working on cleaning up in the new version update. All in all, support is always great. Hold times have been good, some a bit longer less than 30 mins, others right through. Understandable since it's a new product rollout. We used ESET for new installs before this, it just takes too long to roll out. It's easy enough to do once you figure it out, but it's still too long for me. Vipre install to deploy is about 10 mins once you do it a few times. MSI, GP, automated push, take your pick for install method. From: Devin Meade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 2:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Corporate antivirus recommendation I have to agree on number four. We have more and more laptops and this is key. Question - will VIPRE do this? If so, its on our short list in a few months with Trend expires. Devin On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:52 PM, John Gwinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Regarding understanding tech's, I think that's anywhere these days. 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. For our needs I'd add: 4) Ability for external laptops that have never been in the office to get updates Panda says they do 4, but I evaluated it and it didn't seem to be as well integrated as Trend. Every time I've evaluated our situation I've stuck with Trend. Some of our users revolt and purchase Symantec because "it's the standard". *sigh* We're a consulting company and 95% of our users have never stepped foot in the office, so I need something that works well outside the firewall. == John == From: James Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 9:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Corporate antivirus recommendation I want to dump trend just so I don't have to hear their horrendous hold song anymore. That and the more then one hour hold times to speak to a tech then when I get a tech there is a 50/50 chance I wont be able to understand him or her. James -- Devin .. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
