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Re: [pen] Best AV for business

The one for U of M - whoever makes it, I forget his name, but I always hated it. It's pretty much your standard McAfee AV v8.5 Enterprise msi that's been wrapped with probably the most ridiculous amount of batch scripts that I've ever seen! It consists of bat files that are hidden by modified a cmd, along with a few compiled shell apps (grep, cat, curl), and rtf files that pop up in wordpad when you least expect it. The least he could of done is just print the notes off that are on the rtfs on the same installer dialog or something. The reason I still have it is because I worked there for a good amount of years repairing student and faculty laptops. The AV client does a reasonable job at what its supposed to do, though I usually suggest people to use something that doesn't depend on third party software in order to be usable.
Anyway, I removed the time check from the install script and threw it into a nice NSIS exec. Unfortunately I can't "redownload" it from the site for lack of permission (though I do still have access to my server space and mail on there, so I must of been removed from some group that is allowed to download it.) The full scan engine updates and definition updates work just fine at updating from the U of M McAfee server. Oh well. I'm glad I keep a copy of it so I won't lose it. 
-nawcom

Steve Laurin wrote:
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 

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*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 <mailto:andykaiser@xxxxxxxxx>
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Toby <darthstrydre@xxxxxxxxx <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto:andykaiser@xxxxxxxxx>
    >
    >
    > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Barry Callahan
    <barryc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto: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:
    >>>
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    >>>
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