Hi all: We are dumping our existing anti-virus suite as Total Defense is going End-of-Life. It has also done poorly in various tests. Currently my top contenders are Kapersky and BitDefender.
My key things I want in a replacement are:
So, what say you?
My key things I want in a replacement are:[color=blue]
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Any quantitative measure for this? Does this mean “good” compared to the
competition, or “good” compared to what people think the software should
do? I assume the former, since AV software traditionally has done pretty
terribly in a lot of areas, particularly the bad areas like new malware.
Any particular platforms in mind, or just the one that everybody thinks of
when they think of viruses? Just for workstations or does there need to
be a server scanning component too? Should it handle e-mail or network
access situations?
Good luck.
Many good questions. In general I need anti-virus for Windows XP and Windows 7 64-bit. It should support Windows file servers (2008/R2) and OES2/SLES. I am not that interested in fire-walling workstations as that seems to cause many problems.
My definition of anti-virus includes ALL malware, which I know differs from some vendor’s definition (sell two products rather than one).
I don’t have any real quantitative numbers, only perceived expectations. If I have to give a number, I would say any product should use no more than 10% CPU resources during a scan given a modern CPU, say a Core i5 desktop CPU. I would love it if an anti-virus product could scan at night with no user logged into the workstation.
Email is GroupWise. If we could scan GroupWise that is a plus, but I doubt that is an option.
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My key things I want in a replacement are:
- Obviously it must to good at detection
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Any quantitative measure for this? Does this mean “good” compared to the
competition, or “good” compared to what people think the software should
do? I assume the former, since AV software traditionally has done pretty
terribly in a lot of areas, particularly the bad areas like new malware.
Any particular platforms in mind, or just the one that everybody thinks of
when they think of viruses? Just for workstations or does there need to
be a server scanning component too? Should it handle e-mail or network
access situations?
Good luck.
On 2/18/2013 9:42 AM, Chris wrote:[color=blue]
Hi all: We are dumping our existing anti-virus suite as Total Defense is going
End-of-Life. It has also done poorly in various tests. Currently my top
contenders are Kapersky and BitDefender.
My key things I want in a replacement are:
- Obviously it must to good at detection
- Low system overhead.
- Good management and deployment. Only me to manage 100+ workstations.
- Reasonably priced.
So, what say you?
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Been using Vipre at a number of sites of similar size as you described.
The product is definitely lightweight and the management console is well
done. Deployments are simple. It also automatically removes pretty much
all competitor products when you push an install.
GFI bought them maybe two years ago. As a plus support is all US based
and they were very efficient the few times I needed to call.
We run Sophos here. Nice simple mgmt console, easy deployment to
endpoints. Runs on windows, and can install & manage it on sles as
well. Deployment can be done via the mgmt console or via packaged
silent installs as well.
Can schedule scans whenever. We do have our pc/laptop scans running
during the week as almost all of them are powered off so a nighttime
scan is out, but servers & vms run scans at night and on weekends.
Other modules can be turned on to block use of things like usb drives,
except for makes/models that you as the admin approve.
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Stevo
Chris wrote:
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So, what say you?[/color]
have you looked at this?
http://www.av-comparatives.org/
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Kevin Boyle - Knowledge Partner
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i’ve been using kaspersky and nod32 for the last 3 or 4 years, have
foudn both to be fairly easy to manage, nod32 was lighter in terms of
resource usage but less features compared to kaspersky
I have one site using avg business edition and with some of the less
needed features stripped out it seems to perform fairly well too
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