I am sure others have had great luck with Vipre. But as I said, we have been working with their top techs since November, and it is still not working well. I mentioned that it would appear to be working, and had we not been hit with the Konficker we would have thought wonderful things about it, but after delving into the realities of the system, it just is not reporting a lot of issues back to the console, and IO have to go find out what is really happening under the covers. Hopefully Version 4 will resolve a lot of issues, but right now, with Sunbelt Tech support working with us, the system is eating 4-6 hours of my day trying to make sure we are secure and able to function.
Their support is quite responsive, normally although there are lapses, and very good. The system is just not ready for prime time as of this week. Next week and version 4 may be a different story. From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 10:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VIPRE versus Trend I've had a completely different experience with Vipre Enterprise Steve. We have had some issues with Vipre bpam service using up non-paged pool memory, causing the server to become unresponsive, this happened on a very small subset of servers, but a very significant subset, namely database servers with Oracle on them. In working with Vipre support we completely disabled quick scans, and deep scans, only using active protection on the policy group for database servers. We also made some changes in memory management on the servers per some MS KB articles that we researched and that Vipre support directed us to. We haven't had any issues with this in 2-3 months. I've not ever used Trend, only McAfee and Vipre. Vipre management console is great, easy and intuitive compared to McAfee's ePO. Vipre has caught more stuff than we ever thought possible since we've implemented it, including some password cracker applications on workstations that shouldn't have those kind of things...... I've got Vipre installed on 650 nodes, and am having to up my license count because we're out of licenses. On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Steve Kelsay <kels...@sctax.org> wrote: I wish I could be more optimistic, but We are using the Vipre Enterprise. It does an excellent job of protecting us, when I can keep it running. It seems like it just is not ready for primetime. Sunbelt had their top tech go through our entire network setup during a recent Konficker attack, and it is still not really stable. I can look at the console and believe it is running wonderfully, until scans start without any identifiable cause, effectively shutting down servers with 100% Cpu usage, but that scan never shows up on the remote console, although the machines are sending last contact info, and last scan info, the off time scans never show up. I lobbied hard to get Vipre, and really want it to succeed, but it is not looking good at this time. A deep scan starts on many machines as soon as anyone logs onto the machine, and that will also peg the CPU meter. No reason we can tell for this to happen. From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 4:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VIPRE versus Trend All, We're looking to move away from McAfee. Right now we're considering Trend Micro OfficeScan Enterprise and the VIPRE Enterprise products. Anyone here (aside from Sunbelt employees) have any experience with both of the current or relatively current iterations of the products? Can you provide any reasons to choose one over the other, aside from price? Thanks in advance, Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.com ________________________________ Any medical information contained in this electronic message is CONFIDENTIAL and privileged. It is unlawful for unauthorized persons to view, copy, disclose, or disseminate CONFIDENTIAL information. This electronic message may contain information that is confidential and/or legally privileged. It is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and/or entity named as recipients in the message. If you are not an intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete this material from your computer. Do not deliver, distribute or copy this message, and do not disclose its contents or take any action in reliance on the information that it contains. -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
