That's been our experience with McCrappy too.
From: Ray [mailto:rz...@qwest.net] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 8:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Enterprise Anti-Virus Funny, but were having all kinds of trouble with McAfee and rather than sending me an uninstall tool, they gave a 30 page document with gozillions of reg entries I had to delete manually. From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 3:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Enterprise Anti-Virus No not really. McAfee even has a removal tool to actually remove it that you can get from McAfee. Add/Remove programs still leaves a lot of traces of McAfee, it just doesn't want to uninstall. Uggg, I just remove Groupshield last weekend. I didn't really try to do a good clean removal because the Exchange server will be going away in a very short time as I'm in the process of setting up E2K3. (No, I'm not going to E2K10 because licenses were bought for E2K3 & no money available for another upgrade at this time.) On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:17 PM, James Kerr <cluster...@gmail.com> wrote: Cant you just remove McAfee with McAfee? James ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Stovall" <rich...@gmail.com> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 5:08 PM Subject: Re: Enterprise Anti-Virus Vipre can do this sometimes. I had zero luck with it, but my environment is tiny by comparison and it wasn't a deal-breaker. Others report quite good success. On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Harry Singh <hbo...@gmail.com> wrote: I plan on making a decision similar to this in near future and i'm curious how do you plan on uninstalling your current AV across 4k workstations? It would be nice is Vipre or NOD32 had the ability to recognize AV and remove it accordingly. That may be wishful thinking though. On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Karl Bickmore <k...@ccnsconsulting.com> wrote: I put in the vote for Vipre. We run a central console for about 30 sites with the newest version 4.0. It is pretty easy to deploy and the policy management is also simple. Even more, it seems to be a solid product at actually doing AV. Karl Bickmore MSCE NT4/2k/2k3, MCP, MCP+I, MCSA 2k/2k3 LPI-1, CCNA, CCDA, Net+,Security+,Linux+ DataCore SANmelody Certified 6613 N Scottsdale Road, Suite 101 Scottsdale AZ, 85250 480-553-9967 X100 k...@ccnsconsulting.com Please remember CCNS is a referral based business. If you have a friend or colleague in need, we are happy to help. Feel free to pass along our contact information to anyone you think we can help. Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: Ray [mailto:rz...@qwest.net] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 1:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Enterprise Anti-Virus I know this has been discussed many times in the past, but I'm going to ask again. Our McAfee contract is nearing renewal and we're looking for alternatives. We have about 4,000 desktops in 20 remote sites. We'd love the flexibility of managing everything from centralized console, and perhaps even allowing the local sites on-site staff to have access to their own machines. Not all our pipes are that great, so a distributed model for .dat updates would be ideal. We are currently evaluating Vipre. Last year we looked at and actually chose to buy Nod32, but, well, long story, and it wasn't the vendors fault. We're also looking at Trend and Sophos. Any feedback on what you have now and why you chose it or are dumping it would be great. Thanks, Ray ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ -- 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/> ~
