Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise?
SEP increased my user logoff times on MPS 4.5 by about 30-40 seconds. Caused in my opinion by the problem a lot of AV vendors have - trying to be more than the end-user requires. Once I stopped installing the full-fat version and limited it to only AV and antispyware, it started behaving more like an antivirus product and less like a bloated, unnecessary suite of difficult-to-manage security products. I've since moved to Vipre and found it a lot easier, both in terms of installation, footprint, and maintenance. Having said that, I haven't been bitten by any of the FPs that came out lately either, but I am much happier with Sunbelt's product. However, seeing as though we have mandatory profiles, a very tight Group Policy implementation, application whitelisting and various other layers of security, our AV doesn't do much at all, bar catch the EICAR test strings we send out occasionally. On 9 May 2010 22:34, James Hill james.h...@superamart.com.au wrote: IMO SEP was a disaster when it was first released. It was supposed to fix the problems with the previous product (Symantec Corporate Edition, which I can remember having to completely renstall on every server we had as it wouldn't update anymore and that was Symantec's fix for the issue). We were an early adopter of Windows 2008 Server and SEP caused us massive pain. It broke shares left right and centre and would bring servers to a halt. It took about 3 releases from when the problem was identified before it was fixed. Of course each of those releases was claimed to fix the problem. This was just one of its issues. There were many. I swore black and blue when with my previous employer that I wouldn't touch Symantec AV again. Then I inherited it in my current job and I've been singing the same thing. Not to mention we also battle with some of their other products. Backup Exec (update a backup exec server and watch it stop the sql service on the sql server its database is on... too bad for the other databases on there) and Enterprise Vault provide their share of pain as well. Having said that, SEP has worked pretty well since MR5. Nothing major has broken for a while and it seems to stop all threats except for those Fake AV malwares (which many of the big players seem to struggle with). The management console is quite easy to use, there is a good amount of control over how defs are deployed. The group updater function is great(now that it finally works properly). To be honest it has been very solid for a while now but we will probably look at Microsoft's offering next time. -Original Message- From: justino garcia [mailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 10 May 2010 6:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? For those runng symantec what the biggest issues postive and negative. Just want to be open minded. On 5/9/10, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: We have SEP because the larger gov. organization we are a part of has standardized on it, and thus has a contract that makes the price attractive. I haven't had much success trying to convince them otherwise. -sc From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We're using SEP because we're implementing NAC and it also does AV, firewall etc. We also have to have a separate desktop security product to our server security product. Cheers Ken From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk] Sent: Sunday, 9 May 2010 10:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We are running SAV because we are a Symantec Partner, therefore I assume we get it for free. But, if I had the decision I would switch to VIPRE in a flash. I have nothing against Symantec, in fact they have a strong portfolio of solutions. However, their Antivirus / Endpoint Protection is unwieldy, badly designed and above all a bloated resource drainer. I would be very surprised if anyone here came out strongly in favour of SAV, but I would be very interested to hear if anyone has positive experiences. Always want to be open minded. Regards, andrew On 9 May 2010 10:10, Dave Florea blazer...@gmail.com wrote: Cold day in Hades. Sent slowly via my BBerry... From: greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 19:31:20 -0400 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? With all the passion and sincerity I can muster...NO! From: Micheal Espinola Jr
Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise?
Except that Microsoft has great OSes out concurrently with WinME, so you still had good options available from them. Symantec's products were simply crappy all the way through. They had to purchase SyGate's product to arrive at the not-quite-so-crappy-anymore product they have today. If you're happy with Symantec, then by all means continue to use them. No one has suggested that they have a 100% failure rate, or no-one would be using them. But enough of us have been burned enough times over a sufficient period of time to choose one of the many viable alternatives on the market. -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:22 AM, HELP_PC g...@enter.it wrote: Is the same telling MS has crappy Oss when the last tried was Windows ME!| GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Inviato: lunedì 10 maggio 2010 0.51 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Clients all of the sudden becoming unmanageable from the console and needing manual intervention. At least that was the case with 2 previous versions of SAV, haven't been running SEP long enough to have seen if that's been fixed yet. -sc -Original Message- From: justino garcia [mailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? For those runng symantec what the biggest issues postive and negative. Just want to be open minded. On 5/9/10, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: We have SEP because the larger gov. organization we are a part of has standardized on it, and thus has a contract that makes the price attractive. I haven't had much success trying to convince them otherwise. -sc From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We're using SEP because we're implementing NAC and it also does AV, firewall etc. We also have to have a separate desktop security product to our server security product. Cheers Ken From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk] Sent: Sunday, 9 May 2010 10:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We are running SAV because we are a Symantec Partner, therefore I assume we get it for free. But, if I had the decision I would switch to VIPRE in a flash. I have nothing against Symantec, in fact they have a strong portfolio of solutions. However, their Antivirus / Endpoint Protection is unwieldy, badly designed and above all a bloated resource drainer. I would be very surprised if anyone here came out strongly in favour of SAV, but I would be very interested to hear if anyone has positive experiences. Always want to be open minded. Regards, andrew On 9 May 2010 10:10, Dave Florea blazer...@gmail.com wrote: Cold day in Hades. Sent slowly via my BBerry... From: greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 19:31:20 -0400 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? With all the passion and sincerity I can muster...NO! From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 7:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Oh, HELLS NO... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise?
I'm not even sure what you are trying to say. -sc -Original Message- From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 12:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Is the same telling MS has crappy Oss when the last tried was Windows ME!| GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Inviato: lunedì 10 maggio 2010 0.51 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Clients all of the sudden becoming unmanageable from the console and needing manual intervention. At least that was the case with 2 previous versions of SAV, haven't been running SEP long enough to have seen if that's been fixed yet. -sc -Original Message- From: justino garcia [mailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? For those runng symantec what the biggest issues postive and negative. Just want to be open minded. On 5/9/10, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: We have SEP because the larger gov. organization we are a part of has standardized on it, and thus has a contract that makes the price attractive. I haven't had much success trying to convince them otherwise. -sc From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We're using SEP because we're implementing NAC and it also does AV, firewall etc. We also have to have a separate desktop security product to our server security product. Cheers Ken From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk] Sent: Sunday, 9 May 2010 10:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We are running SAV because we are a Symantec Partner, therefore I assume we get it for free. But, if I had the decision I would switch to VIPRE in a flash. I have nothing against Symantec, in fact they have a strong portfolio of solutions. However, their Antivirus / Endpoint Protection is unwieldy, badly designed and above all a bloated resource drainer. I would be very surprised if anyone here came out strongly in favour of SAV, but I would be very interested to hear if anyone has positive experiences. Always want to be open minded. Regards, andrew On 9 May 2010 10:10, Dave Florea blazer...@gmail.com wrote: Cold day in Hades. Sent slowly via my BBerry... From: greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 19:31:20 -0400 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? With all the passion and sincerity I can muster...NO! From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 7:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Oh, HELLS NO... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Justin IT-TECH ~ 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/ ~
RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise?
As I _AM_ running both SAV and SEP, I guess I'll file that away as advice for the future... -sc -Original Message- From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? I said that you cannot talk about things that you didn't try GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Inviato: lunedì 10 maggio 2010 14.54 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? I'm not even sure what you are trying to say. -sc -Original Message- From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 12:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Is the same telling MS has crappy Oss when the last tried was Windows ME!| GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Inviato: lunedì 10 maggio 2010 0.51 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Clients all of the sudden becoming unmanageable from the console and needing manual intervention. At least that was the case with 2 previous versions of SAV, haven't been running SEP long enough to have seen if that's been fixed yet. -sc -Original Message- From: justino garcia [mailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? For those runng symantec what the biggest issues postive and negative. Just want to be open minded. On 5/9/10, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: We have SEP because the larger gov. organization we are a part of has standardized on it, and thus has a contract that makes the price attractive. I haven't had much success trying to convince them otherwise. -sc From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We're using SEP because we're implementing NAC and it also does AV, firewall etc. We also have to have a separate desktop security product to our server security product. Cheers Ken From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk] Sent: Sunday, 9 May 2010 10:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We are running SAV because we are a Symantec Partner, therefore I assume we get it for free. But, if I had the decision I would switch to VIPRE in a flash. I have nothing against Symantec, in fact they have a strong portfolio of solutions. However, their Antivirus / Endpoint Protection is unwieldy, badly designed and above all a bloated resource drainer. I would be very surprised if anyone here came out strongly in favour of SAV, but I would be very interested to hear if anyone has positive experiences. Always want to be open minded. Regards, andrew On 9 May 2010 10:10, Dave Florea blazer...@gmail.com wrote: Cold day in Hades. Sent slowly via my BBerry... From: greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 19:31:20 -0400 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? With all the passion and sincerity I can muster...NO! From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 7:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Oh, HELLS NO... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Justin IT-TECH ~ 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/ ~ ~ Finally,
RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise?
Look the original poster asked who was running SAV and their experience. I gave my experience for SAV, and for SEP, and called them out separately. We are running both, and I've disclosed to what extent my experience with SEP is limited by time. This is nothing at all like only running WinME and opting to comment on Win2K without having touched it. Feel free to have the last word I'll not waste my time arguing with you. -sc -Original Message- From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Who did write it ? At least that was the case with 2 previous versions of SAV, haven't been running SEP long enough to have seen if that's been fixed yet. GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Inviato: lunedì 10 maggio 2010 15.05 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? As I _AM_ running both SAV and SEP, I guess I'll file that away as advice for the future... -sc -Original Message- From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? I said that you cannot talk about things that you didn't try GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Inviato: lunedì 10 maggio 2010 14.54 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? I'm not even sure what you are trying to say. -sc -Original Message- From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 12:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Is the same telling MS has crappy Oss when the last tried was Windows ME!| GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Inviato: lunedì 10 maggio 2010 0.51 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Clients all of the sudden becoming unmanageable from the console and needing manual intervention. At least that was the case with 2 previous versions of SAV, haven't been running SEP long enough to have seen if that's been fixed yet. -sc -Original Message- From: justino garcia [mailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? For those runng symantec what the biggest issues postive and negative. Just want to be open minded. On 5/9/10, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: We have SEP because the larger gov. organization we are a part of has standardized on it, and thus has a contract that makes the price attractive. I haven't had much success trying to convince them otherwise. -sc From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We're using SEP because we're implementing NAC and it also does AV, firewall etc. We also have to have a separate desktop security product to our server security product. Cheers Ken From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk] Sent: Sunday, 9 May 2010 10:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We are running SAV because we are a Symantec Partner, therefore I assume we get it for free. But, if I had the decision I would switch to VIPRE in a flash. I have nothing against Symantec, in fact they have a strong portfolio of solutions. However, their Antivirus / Endpoint Protection is unwieldy, badly designed and above all a bloated resource drainer. I would be very surprised if anyone here came out strongly in favour of SAV, but I would be very interested to hear if anyone has positive experiences. Always want to be open minded. Regards, andrew On 9 May 2010 10:10, Dave Florea blazer...@gmail.com wrote: Cold day in Hades. Sent slowly via my BBerry... From: greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 19:31:20 -0400
RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise?
Used SEP as well as SCE for years, but when VIPRE came along, became a believer and not going back. Jay Dale I.T. Manager, 3GiG Mobile: 713.299.2541 Email: jay.d...@3-gig.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and/or privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this e-mail and attachments, if any, or the information contained herein, is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. -Original Message- From: James Hill [mailto:james.h...@superamart.com.au] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? IMO SEP was a disaster when it was first released. It was supposed to fix the problems with the previous product (Symantec Corporate Edition, which I can remember having to completely renstall on every server we had as it wouldn't update anymore and that was Symantec's fix for the issue). We were an early adopter of Windows 2008 Server and SEP caused us massive pain. It broke shares left right and centre and would bring servers to a halt. It took about 3 releases from when the problem was identified before it was fixed. Of course each of those releases was claimed to fix the problem. This was just one of its issues. There were many. I swore black and blue when with my previous employer that I wouldn't touch Symantec AV again. Then I inherited it in my current job and I've been singing the same thing. Not to mention we also battle with some of their other products. Backup Exec (update a backup exec server and watch it stop the sql service on the sql server its database is on... too bad for the other databases on there) and Enterprise Vault provide their share of pain as well. Having said that, SEP has worked pretty well since MR5. Nothing major has broken for a while and it seems to stop all threats except for those Fake AV malwares (which many of the big players seem to struggle with). The management console is quite easy to use, there is a good amount of control over how defs are deployed. The group updater function is great(now that it finally works properly). To be honest it has been very solid for a while now but we will probably look at Microsoft's offering next time. -Original Message- From: justino garcia [mailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 10 May 2010 6:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? For those runng symantec what the biggest issues postive and negative. Just want to be open minded. On 5/9/10, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: We have SEP because the larger gov. organization we are a part of has standardized on it, and thus has a contract that makes the price attractive. I haven't had much success trying to convince them otherwise. -sc From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We're using SEP because we're implementing NAC and it also does AV, firewall etc. We also have to have a separate desktop security product to our server security product. Cheers Ken From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk] Sent: Sunday, 9 May 2010 10:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We are running SAV because we are a Symantec Partner, therefore I assume we get it for free. But, if I had the decision I would switch to VIPRE in a flash. I have nothing against Symantec, in fact they have a strong portfolio of solutions. However, their Antivirus / Endpoint Protection is unwieldy, badly designed and above all a bloated resource drainer. I would be very surprised if anyone here came out strongly in favour of SAV, but I would be very interested to hear if anyone has positive experiences. Always want to be open minded. Regards, andrew On 9 May 2010 10:10, Dave Florea blazer...@gmail.com wrote: Cold day in Hades. Sent slowly via my BBerry... From: greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 19:31:20 -0400 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? With all the passion and sincerity I can muster...NO! From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 7:11 PM To: NT System
RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise?
We're using SEP because we're implementing NAC and it also does AV, firewall etc. We also have to have a separate desktop security product to our server security product. Cheers Ken From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk] Sent: Sunday, 9 May 2010 10:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We are running SAV because we are a Symantec Partner, therefore I assume we get it for free. But, if I had the decision I would switch to VIPRE in a flash. I have nothing against Symantec, in fact they have a strong portfolio of solutions. However, their Antivirus / Endpoint Protection is unwieldy, badly designed and above all a bloated resource drainer. I would be very surprised if anyone here came out strongly in favour of SAV, but I would be very interested to hear if anyone has positive experiences. Always want to be open minded. Regards, andrew On 9 May 2010 10:10, Dave Florea blazer...@gmail.commailto:blazer...@gmail.com wrote: Cold day in Hades. Sent slowly via my BBerry... From: greg.swe...@actsconsulting.netmailto:greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 19:31:20 -0400 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? With all the passion and sincerity I can muster...NO! From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.commailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 7:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Oh, HELLS NO... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise?
We have SEP because the larger gov. organization we are a part of has standardized on it, and thus has a contract that makes the price attractive. I haven't had much success trying to convince them otherwise. -sc From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We're using SEP because we're implementing NAC and it also does AV, firewall etc. We also have to have a separate desktop security product to our server security product. Cheers Ken From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk] Sent: Sunday, 9 May 2010 10:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We are running SAV because we are a Symantec Partner, therefore I assume we get it for free. But, if I had the decision I would switch to VIPRE in a flash. I have nothing against Symantec, in fact they have a strong portfolio of solutions. However, their Antivirus / Endpoint Protection is unwieldy, badly designed and above all a bloated resource drainer. I would be very surprised if anyone here came out strongly in favour of SAV, but I would be very interested to hear if anyone has positive experiences. Always want to be open minded. Regards, andrew On 9 May 2010 10:10, Dave Florea blazer...@gmail.com wrote: Cold day in Hades. Sent slowly via my BBerry... From: greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 19:31:20 -0400 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? With all the passion and sincerity I can muster...NO! From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 7:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Oh, HELLS NO... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise?
For those runng symantec what the biggest issues postive and negative. Just want to be open minded. On 5/9/10, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: We have SEP because the larger gov. organization we are a part of has standardized on it, and thus has a contract that makes the price attractive. I haven't had much success trying to convince them otherwise. -sc From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We're using SEP because we're implementing NAC and it also does AV, firewall etc. We also have to have a separate desktop security product to our server security product. Cheers Ken From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk] Sent: Sunday, 9 May 2010 10:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We are running SAV because we are a Symantec Partner, therefore I assume we get it for free. But, if I had the decision I would switch to VIPRE in a flash. I have nothing against Symantec, in fact they have a strong portfolio of solutions. However, their Antivirus / Endpoint Protection is unwieldy, badly designed and above all a bloated resource drainer. I would be very surprised if anyone here came out strongly in favour of SAV, but I would be very interested to hear if anyone has positive experiences. Always want to be open minded. Regards, andrew On 9 May 2010 10:10, Dave Florea blazer...@gmail.com wrote: Cold day in Hades. Sent slowly via my BBerry... From: greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 19:31:20 -0400 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? With all the passion and sincerity I can muster...NO! From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 7:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Oh, HELLS NO... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Justin IT-TECH ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise?
I have not run latest, but every other version that we had on clients was it was extremely bloated (Memory/CPU) utilization, and it didn't catch virtually anything new. Greg -Original Message- From: justino garcia [mailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? For those runng symantec what the biggest issues postive and negative. Just want to be open minded. On 5/9/10, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: We have SEP because the larger gov. organization we are a part of has standardized on it, and thus has a contract that makes the price attractive. I haven't had much success trying to convince them otherwise. -sc From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We're using SEP because we're implementing NAC and it also does AV, firewall etc. We also have to have a separate desktop security product to our server security product. Cheers Ken From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk] Sent: Sunday, 9 May 2010 10:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We are running SAV because we are a Symantec Partner, therefore I assume we get it for free. But, if I had the decision I would switch to VIPRE in a flash. I have nothing against Symantec, in fact they have a strong portfolio of solutions. However, their Antivirus / Endpoint Protection is unwieldy, badly designed and above all a bloated resource drainer. I would be very surprised if anyone here came out strongly in favour of SAV, but I would be very interested to hear if anyone has positive experiences. Always want to be open minded. Regards, andrew On 9 May 2010 10:10, Dave Florea blazer...@gmail.com wrote: Cold day in Hades. Sent slowly via my BBerry... From: greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 19:31:20 -0400 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? With all the passion and sincerity I can muster...NO! From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 7:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Oh, HELLS NO... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Justin IT-TECH ~ 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/ ~
Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise?
Did it run av deep scans schedule Sav or just active protections On 5/9/10, greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net wrote: I have not run latest, but every other version that we had on clients was it was extremely bloated (Memory/CPU) utilization, and it didn't catch virtually anything new. Greg -Original Message- From: justino garcia [mailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? For those runng symantec what the biggest issues postive and negative. Just want to be open minded. On 5/9/10, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: We have SEP because the larger gov. organization we are a part of has standardized on it, and thus has a contract that makes the price attractive. I haven't had much success trying to convince them otherwise. -sc From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We're using SEP because we're implementing NAC and it also does AV, firewall etc. We also have to have a separate desktop security product to our server security product. Cheers Ken From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk] Sent: Sunday, 9 May 2010 10:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We are running SAV because we are a Symantec Partner, therefore I assume we get it for free. But, if I had the decision I would switch to VIPRE in a flash. I have nothing against Symantec, in fact they have a strong portfolio of solutions. However, their Antivirus / Endpoint Protection is unwieldy, badly designed and above all a bloated resource drainer. I would be very surprised if anyone here came out strongly in favour of SAV, but I would be very interested to hear if anyone has positive experiences. Always want to be open minded. Regards, andrew On 9 May 2010 10:10, Dave Florea blazer...@gmail.com wrote: Cold day in Hades. Sent slowly via my BBerry... From: greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 19:31:20 -0400 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? With all the passion and sincerity I can muster...NO! From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 7:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Oh, HELLS NO... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Justin IT-TECH ~ 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/ ~ -- Justin IT-TECH ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise?
IMO SEP was a disaster when it was first released. It was supposed to fix the problems with the previous product (Symantec Corporate Edition, which I can remember having to completely renstall on every server we had as it wouldn't update anymore and that was Symantec's fix for the issue). We were an early adopter of Windows 2008 Server and SEP caused us massive pain. It broke shares left right and centre and would bring servers to a halt. It took about 3 releases from when the problem was identified before it was fixed. Of course each of those releases was claimed to fix the problem. This was just one of its issues. There were many. I swore black and blue when with my previous employer that I wouldn't touch Symantec AV again. Then I inherited it in my current job and I've been singing the same thing. Not to mention we also battle with some of their other products. Backup Exec (update a backup exec server and watch it stop the sql service on the sql server its database is on... too bad for the other databases on there) and Enterprise Vault provide their share of pain as well. Having said that, SEP has worked pretty well since MR5. Nothing major has broken for a while and it seems to stop all threats except for those Fake AV malwares (which many of the big players seem to struggle with). The management console is quite easy to use, there is a good amount of control over how defs are deployed. The group updater function is great(now that it finally works properly). To be honest it has been very solid for a while now but we will probably look at Microsoft's offering next time. -Original Message- From: justino garcia [mailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 10 May 2010 6:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? For those runng symantec what the biggest issues postive and negative. Just want to be open minded. On 5/9/10, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: We have SEP because the larger gov. organization we are a part of has standardized on it, and thus has a contract that makes the price attractive. I haven't had much success trying to convince them otherwise. -sc From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We're using SEP because we're implementing NAC and it also does AV, firewall etc. We also have to have a separate desktop security product to our server security product. Cheers Ken From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk] Sent: Sunday, 9 May 2010 10:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We are running SAV because we are a Symantec Partner, therefore I assume we get it for free. But, if I had the decision I would switch to VIPRE in a flash. I have nothing against Symantec, in fact they have a strong portfolio of solutions. However, their Antivirus / Endpoint Protection is unwieldy, badly designed and above all a bloated resource drainer. I would be very surprised if anyone here came out strongly in favour of SAV, but I would be very interested to hear if anyone has positive experiences. Always want to be open minded. Regards, andrew On 9 May 2010 10:10, Dave Florea blazer...@gmail.com wrote: Cold day in Hades. Sent slowly via my BBerry... From: greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 19:31:20 -0400 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? With all the passion and sincerity I can muster...NO! From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 7:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Oh, HELLS NO... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Justin IT-TECH ~ 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/ ~
RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise?
Clients all of the sudden becoming unmanageable from the console and needing manual intervention. At least that was the case with 2 previous versions of SAV, haven't been running SEP long enough to have seen if that's been fixed yet. -sc -Original Message- From: justino garcia [mailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? For those runng symantec what the biggest issues postive and negative. Just want to be open minded. On 5/9/10, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: We have SEP because the larger gov. organization we are a part of has standardized on it, and thus has a contract that makes the price attractive. I haven't had much success trying to convince them otherwise. -sc From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We're using SEP because we're implementing NAC and it also does AV, firewall etc. We also have to have a separate desktop security product to our server security product. Cheers Ken From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk] Sent: Sunday, 9 May 2010 10:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We are running SAV because we are a Symantec Partner, therefore I assume we get it for free. But, if I had the decision I would switch to VIPRE in a flash. I have nothing against Symantec, in fact they have a strong portfolio of solutions. However, their Antivirus / Endpoint Protection is unwieldy, badly designed and above all a bloated resource drainer. I would be very surprised if anyone here came out strongly in favour of SAV, but I would be very interested to hear if anyone has positive experiences. Always want to be open minded. Regards, andrew On 9 May 2010 10:10, Dave Florea blazer...@gmail.com wrote: Cold day in Hades. Sent slowly via my BBerry... From: greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 19:31:20 -0400 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? With all the passion and sincerity I can muster...NO! From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 7:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Oh, HELLS NO... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Justin IT-TECH ~ 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/ ~
Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise?
No way! Symantec is still a system hog and does not catch early what some other vendors do. Jon On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 1:42 PM, justino garcia jgarciaitl...@gmail.comwrote: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? WHY? -- Justin IT-TECH ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
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Not even in my worst nightmare! From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 2:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? No way! Symantec is still a system hog and does not catch early what some other vendors do. Jon On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 1:42 PM, justino garcia jgarciaitl...@gmail.commailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? WHY? -- Justin IT-TECH ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise?
Maybe desire to punish oneself for past-lives cruelty - Original Message - From: justino garcia To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 2:42 PM Subject: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? WHY? -- Justin IT-TECH ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
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I forgot to add and the way they spider their software all though the file system making it almost impossible to get rid of. Symantec is more like a virus or a trojan than most of the others. Jon On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com wrote: No way! Symantec is still a system hog and does not catch early what some other vendors do. Jon On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 1:42 PM, justino garcia jgarciaitl...@gmail.comwrote: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? WHY? -- Justin IT-TECH ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise?
The same complaints/problems we've had with Vipre have been there with Symantec and then some. On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 1:42 PM, justino garcia jgarciaitl...@gmail.comwrote: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? WHY? -- Justin IT-TECH ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise?
Even with symantec enterprise. You had symantec with more issues then current vendor. On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: The same complaints/problems we've had with Vipre have been there with Symantec and then some. On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 1:42 PM, justino garcia jgarciaitl...@gmail.comwrote: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? WHY? -- Justin IT-TECH -- Justin IT-TECH ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
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Oh, HELLS NO... -- ME2 On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 10:42 AM, justino garcia jgarciaitl...@gmail.comwrote: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? WHY? -- Justin IT-TECH ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise?
With all the passion and sincerity I can muster...NO! From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 7:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Oh, HELLS NO... -- ME2 On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 10:42 AM, justino garcia jgarciaitl...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? WHY? -- Justin IT-TECH ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
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Cold day in Hades. Sent slowly via my BBerry... -Original Message- From: greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 19:31:20 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? With all the passion and sincerity I can muster...NO! From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 7:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Oh, HELLS NO... -- ME2 On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 10:42 AM, justino garcia jgarciaitl...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? WHY? -- Justin IT-TECH ~ 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/ ~
RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise?
Not a chance. Ben M. Schorr Chief Executive Officer __ Roland Schorr Tower www.rolandschorr.com http://www.rolandschorr.com/ b...@rolandschorr.com mailto:b...@rolandschorr.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bschorr http://www.twitter.com/bschorr Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/rolandschorr http://www.facebook.com/rolandschorr From: justino garcia [mailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 07:42 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? WHY? -- Justin IT-TECH ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise?
We are running SAV because we are a Symantec Partner, therefore I assume we get it for free. But, if I had the decision I would switch to VIPRE in a flash. I have nothing against Symantec, in fact they have a strong portfolio of solutions. However, their Antivirus / Endpoint Protection is unwieldy, badly designed and above all a bloated resource drainer. I would be very surprised if anyone here came out strongly in favour of SAV, but I would be very interested to hear if anyone has positive experiences. Always want to be open minded. Regards, andrew On 9 May 2010 10:10, Dave Florea blazer...@gmail.com wrote: Cold day in Hades. Sent slowly via my BBerry... -- *From: * greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net *Date: *Sat, 8 May 2010 19:31:20 -0400 *To: *NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Subject: *RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? With all the passion and sincerity I can muster…NO! *From:* Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Saturday, May 08, 2010 7:11 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Oh, HELLS NO... -- ME2 On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 10:42 AM, justino garcia jgarciaitl...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? WHY? -- Justin IT-TECH -- Kind regards, Andrew Levicki MCITP:EDST7/EMA/EA,MCSE,MCSA,MCP,CCNA,ITIL ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
