Re: [pen] Best AV for business

At work we use symantic enterprise and it's pretty workable but we're behind in versions so I'll have to see when we upgrade.... At home I use the free one I can downloa from U of M Ann Arbor.....It's a hybrid of McAfee I believe was engineered by their CS department.... It's free and seems to work pretty well but one must have a student ID to download.....

--Steve

From: Andy Kaiser <andykaiser@xxxxxxxxx>ee
To: pen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 3:40:27 PM
Subject: Re: [pen] Best AV for business

>I attribute its success mainly to the crippling performance hit
on the machines

This is why I specified Enterprise AVD Suite. Any other McAfee AV version sucks. McAfee Online gets a particularly angry middle finger from me.

Andy

Andy Kaiser
andykaiser@xxxxxxxxx

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Toby <darthstrydre@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I second McAfee. It has kept 12 machines virus free for the past 4
years. I attribute its success mainly to the crippling performance hit
on the machines, which discourages employees from doing anything but
essential work on them. Myspace? haha! don't think so sucka! 5 minutes
later the page loads. Any virus that it doesn't catch would probably
just raise the white flag and surrender from the pain of getting
swapped out so often. Think of the children!!!

...

Oh, you mean you want the machine to still be usable? I recommend AmigaOS.

- Strydre

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Andy Kaiser <andykaiser@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I love McAfee Enterprise Active Virus Defense Suite. It's excellent for a
> small-footprint centrally-managed protect-everything type of client. (Note
> that any other McAfee AV product is pretty junky.)
> I specifically recommend against Symantec Endpoint Protection (that's the
> v11 client suite) - it's excellent, but only if you're running it on new,
> fast PCs. Otherwise it's a bloated resource hog.
> AVG is okay, but both the licensing implementation and cosmetics have always
> annoyed me.
>
> Andy Kaiser
> andykaiser@xxxxxxxxx
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Barry Callahan <barryc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> CA (Computer Associates) Antivirus
>> Info Link: http://www.ca.com/us/products/product.aspx?id=156
>> (Also contains a link to the installer.Can be used unlicensed as a
>> 30-day, fully-functional trial.)
>>
>> Pricing includes unlimited access to Signature and Engine update (until
>> the version gets EOL'ed.)
>> "Maintenance", which can be purchased, allows "free" access to new
>> versions... But each version "lives" for several years.
>>
>> Douglas Friess wrote:
>>>
>>> Anyone have any opinions on Antivirus products?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Douglas A. Friess
>>>
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