Re: Avast AV
If the system has any audio when it reports that the definations are updated it may cause issues with the less tech savy folks. I have a couple of home users who's kids report parents jumping up from the system and calling one of them when it happens. That is the home version so I don't know if the Pro does that as well or not. Jon On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Sam Cayze sam.ca...@rollouts.com wrote: That's the one thing I remember from back in the day of using it at home, it ALWAYS requested reboots. Highly annoying. -- *From:* gswe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net] *Sent:* Friday, May 01, 2009 10:57 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Avast AV We had one client that was using it in the Enterprise and it worked, but the console was convoluted. Its updates required reboots constantly both server and workstation side and its performance drawbacks were not as bad as Symantec, but still very noticeable. Lots of home users were using it, and we installed it on a lot of them about 2 years ago now, but since then we have moved most of them to Vipre or AVG. *From:* Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] *Sent:* Friday, May 01, 2009 11:48 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Avast AV I’ve seen it on a couple home machines I’ve worked on. Both were eaten up with malware, and the Avast active protection really bogged the machines down. Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ *From:* Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] *Sent:* Friday, May 01, 2009 11:15 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Avast AV I take it from the lack of replies that no one is using Avast? In a way, that’s good, as I really don’t want to do a lot of research into it, but on the other hand, I don’t have any ammo against it either… Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel *From:* Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] *Sent:* Thursday, April 30, 2009 8:50 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Avast AV Anyone using the corporate level of this? Opinions? Also, for Stu, if you read this, how do your products compare to Avast, as far as CPU usage, overhead, etc.? Only reason I ask this is that I’ve forwarded the upcoming Sunbelt webinars to the rest of my IT group (6 people total) and one of the developers came back saying we should look at Avast as well… Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 jhea...@etp.ca.gov ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Avast AV
Lol, I agree Sherry, but I have a very opinionated developer that I'm dealing with, and he also has the title of System Architect, which gives him more leverage when he suggests something. Not that it means he really knows much of anything on the subject, but there ya go... Thanks all for the responses, I'll probably be printing them out for sharing with my boss. Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 8:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Avast AV I would think that if no one is using it, then that would be ammo against it. On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Joe Heaton jhea...@etp.ca.gov wrote: I take it from the lack of replies that no one is using Avast? In a way, that's good, as I really don't want to do a lot of research into it, but on the other hand, I don't have any ammo against it either... Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel From: Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 8:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Avast AV Anyone using the corporate level of this? Opinions? Also, for Stu, if you read this, how do your products compare to Avast, as far as CPU usage, overhead, etc.? Only reason I ask this is that I've forwarded the upcoming Sunbelt webinars to the rest of my IT group (6 people total) and one of the developers came back saying we should look at Avast as well... Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 jhea...@etp.ca.gov -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke Sent from Haslet, TX, United States ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Avast AV
You just tell him that the Grand Poobah of teh (sic) Internets said, ix-nay on the Avast-vay. -- ME2 On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Joe Heaton jhea...@etp.ca.gov wrote: Lol, I agree Sherry, but I have a very opinionated developer that I’m dealing with, and he also has the title of System Architect, which gives him more leverage when he suggests something. Not that it means he really knows much of anything on the subject, but there ya go… Thanks all for the responses, I’ll probably be printing them out for sharing with my boss. Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel *From:* Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, May 01, 2009 8:37 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Avast AV I would think that if no one is using it, then that would be ammo against it. On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Joe Heaton jhea...@etp.ca.gov wrote: I take it from the lack of replies that no one is using Avast? In a way, that’s good, as I really don’t want to do a lot of research into it, but on the other hand, I don’t have any ammo against it either… Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel *From:* Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] *Sent:* Thursday, April 30, 2009 8:50 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Avast AV Anyone using the corporate level of this? Opinions? Also, for Stu, if you read this, how do your products compare to Avast, as far as CPU usage, overhead, etc.? Only reason I ask this is that I’ve forwarded the upcoming Sunbelt webinars to the rest of my IT group (6 people total) and one of the developers came back saying we should look at Avast as well… Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 jhea...@etp.ca.gov -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke Sent from Haslet, TX, United States ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Avast AV
I take it from the lack of replies that no one is using Avast? In a way, that's good, as I really don't want to do a lot of research into it, but on the other hand, I don't have any ammo against it either... Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel From: Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 8:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Avast AV Anyone using the corporate level of this? Opinions? Also, for Stu, if you read this, how do your products compare to Avast, as far as CPU usage, overhead, etc.? Only reason I ask this is that I've forwarded the upcoming Sunbelt webinars to the rest of my IT group (6 people total) and one of the developers came back saying we should look at Avast as well... Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 jhea...@etp.ca.gov ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Avast AV
Sorry, no just use it at home...seems to be OK there. On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Joe Heaton jhea...@etp.ca.gov wrote: I take it from the lack of replies that no one is using Avast? In a way, that’s good, as I really don’t want to do a lot of research into it, but on the other hand, I don’t have any ammo against it either… Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel *From:* Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] *Sent:* Thursday, April 30, 2009 8:50 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Avast AV Anyone using the corporate level of this? Opinions? Also, for Stu, if you read this, how do your products compare to Avast, as far as CPU usage, overhead, etc.? Only reason I ask this is that I’ve forwarded the upcoming Sunbelt webinars to the rest of my IT group (6 people total) and one of the developers came back saying we should look at Avast as well… Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 jhea...@etp.ca.gov ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Avast AV
I would think that if no one is using it, then that would be ammo against it. On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Joe Heaton jhea...@etp.ca.gov wrote: I take it from the lack of replies that no one is using Avast? In a way, that’s good, as I really don’t want to do a lot of research into it, but on the other hand, I don’t have any ammo against it either… Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel *From:* Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] *Sent:* Thursday, April 30, 2009 8:50 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Avast AV Anyone using the corporate level of this? Opinions? Also, for Stu, if you read this, how do your products compare to Avast, as far as CPU usage, overhead, etc.? Only reason I ask this is that I’ve forwarded the upcoming Sunbelt webinars to the rest of my IT group (6 people total) and one of the developers came back saying we should look at Avast as well… Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 jhea...@etp.ca.gov -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke Sent from Haslet, TX, United States ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Avast AV
I've seen it on a couple home machines I've worked on. Both were eaten up with malware, and the Avast active protection really bogged the machines down. Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ From: Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 11:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Avast AV I take it from the lack of replies that no one is using Avast? In a way, that's good, as I really don't want to do a lot of research into it, but on the other hand, I don't have any ammo against it either... Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel From: Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 8:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Avast AV Anyone using the corporate level of this? Opinions? Also, for Stu, if you read this, how do your products compare to Avast, as far as CPU usage, overhead, etc.? Only reason I ask this is that I've forwarded the upcoming Sunbelt webinars to the rest of my IT group (6 people total) and one of the developers came back saying we should look at Avast as well... Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 jhea...@etp.ca.gov ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Avast AV
We had one client that was using it in the Enterprise and it worked, but the console was convoluted. Its updates required reboots constantly both server and workstation side and its performance drawbacks were not as bad as Symantec, but still very noticeable. Lots of home users were using it, and we installed it on a lot of them about 2 years ago now, but since then we have moved most of them to Vipre or AVG. From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 11:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Avast AV I've seen it on a couple home machines I've worked on. Both were eaten up with malware, and the Avast active protection really bogged the machines down. Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ From: Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 11:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Avast AV I take it from the lack of replies that no one is using Avast? In a way, that's good, as I really don't want to do a lot of research into it, but on the other hand, I don't have any ammo against it either... Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel From: Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 8:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Avast AV Anyone using the corporate level of this? Opinions? Also, for Stu, if you read this, how do your products compare to Avast, as far as CPU usage, overhead, etc.? Only reason I ask this is that I've forwarded the upcoming Sunbelt webinars to the rest of my IT group (6 people total) and one of the developers came back saying we should look at Avast as well... Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 jhea...@etp.ca.gov ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Avast AV
That's the one thing I remember from back in the day of using it at home, it ALWAYS requested reboots. Highly annoying. From: gswe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 10:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Avast AV We had one client that was using it in the Enterprise and it worked, but the console was convoluted. Its updates required reboots constantly both server and workstation side and its performance drawbacks were not as bad as Symantec, but still very noticeable. Lots of home users were using it, and we installed it on a lot of them about 2 years ago now, but since then we have moved most of them to Vipre or AVG. From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 11:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Avast AV I've seen it on a couple home machines I've worked on. Both were eaten up with malware, and the Avast active protection really bogged the machines down. Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ From: Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 11:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Avast AV I take it from the lack of replies that no one is using Avast? In a way, that's good, as I really don't want to do a lot of research into it, but on the other hand, I don't have any ammo against it either... Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel From: Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 8:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Avast AV Anyone using the corporate level of this? Opinions? Also, for Stu, if you read this, how do your products compare to Avast, as far as CPU usage, overhead, etc.? Only reason I ask this is that I've forwarded the upcoming Sunbelt webinars to the rest of my IT group (6 people total) and one of the developers came back saying we should look at Avast as well... Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 jhea...@etp.ca.gov ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Avast AV
Anyone using the corporate level of this? Opinions? Also, for Stu, if you read this, how do your products compare to Avast, as far as CPU usage, overhead, etc.? Only reason I ask this is that I've forwarded the upcoming Sunbelt webinars to the rest of my IT group (6 people total) and one of the developers came back saying we should look at Avast as well... Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 jhea...@etp.ca.gov ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
