We are a legacy customer of Symatec. It wasn't the case that I chose PGP because of Symantec.
At the time I was evaluationg options, TrueCrypt didn't have any sort of management functionality... Has that changed? I like having a management passphrase that can be changed centrally... On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Ben Schorr <b...@rolandschorr.com> wrote: > We use TrueCrypt for our whole disk encryption. I prefer not to deal with > Symantec if I don’t have to.**** > > ** ** > > Ben M. Schorr**** > > Roland Schorr & Tower**** > > www.rolandschorr.com | www.officeforlawyers.com | Twitter: @bschorr**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Friday, June 17, 2011 11:27 > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Thank you Symantec for ruining PGP support - Update**** > > ** ** > > So do I, drat.**** > > I pushed out a couple of machines without adequate testing, Actually was > urged to do it, because I'm going on vacation next week midweek, through the > following week, then it's 4th of July weekend.**** > > I hadn't walked through the encryption with either person, yet... Thank > goodness.**** > > > > **** > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 2:14 PM, David Lum <david....@nwea.org> wrote:**** > > We nuke and pave, baby. We leave any diagnostic partitions, but the OS > partition gets blasted and made fresh like a nice Summer’s Eve…**** > > **** > > **** > > *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Friday, June 17, 2011 11:06 AM**** > > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Thank you Symantec for ruining PGP support - Update**** > > **** > > Ok. So I just verified that it is the same for E5420's stock...**** > > Do you typically uninstall the Dell apps, or did you in this case?**** > > **** > > **** > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 1:36 PM, David Lum <david....@nwea.org> wrote:**** > > Dell Latitude E6420**** > > PGP client version 10.0.2.99**** > > **** > > Symptom. Client installs fine, hard drive gets encrypted, but then when you > reboot: BOOM. Nothing. > http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH158600* > *** > > **** > > Dave**** > > **** > > *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Friday, June 17, 2011 10:01 AM**** > > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues**** > > *Subject:* Re: Thank you Symantec for ruining PGP support - Update**** > > **** > > Out of curiosity, what model Dell notebooks and what version of PGP are you > running?**** > > **** > > > > **** > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:47 PM, David Lum <david....@nwea.org> wrote:*** > * > > Been over a week, support still sucks. I am now playing phone tag for > something that I am sure is just a simple KB article. We use PGP Whole Disk > Encryption (or whatever Sh*tmantec they want to label it now). I have > downloaded their latest PGP desktop client and I simply need to add it to > the PGP Universal Server.**** > > **** > > Should be a simple document, but Symantec insists I can’t get the answer > unless I talk to the specific tech person assigned to my case.**** > > **** > > I called them at 11am local, said I’d get a call right back, they left me a > VM at 3:05pm local. I leave at 3PM…**** > > **** > > Dave**** > > **** > > *From:* David Lum [mailto:david....@nwea.org] > *Sent:* Wednesday, June 08, 2011 12:25 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Thank you Symantec for ruining PGP support**** > > **** > > Used to be straightforward getting to technical support, now it bites a$$. > Thank you, Symantec.**** > > *David Lum* > Systems Engineer // NWEATM > Office 503.548.5229 //* *Mobile 503.267.9764**** > > ~ 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