Matt, I don't think our University is going to steer away from their current site license, but I just wanted to get some feedback because I've seen a lot of buzz on the new MSE so I thought I'd check it out. Being a network guy I have nothing to do with desktop support, but I do run the Cisco NAC system so of course antivirus is on my mind. Since I sent this email out, I have already been confirmed by the directors of Support that they recently renewed their McAfee license and are staying with the product, at least for the next year.
Thanks for all the replies. Brian Beausoleil - Network Administrator Office of Information Technology SOUTHERN CT STATE UNIVERSITY [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Work: (203) 392-6109 Fax: (203) 392-6711 On Jun 28, 2010, at 4:28 PM, Manous, Matt wrote: There aren’t a whole lot of options out there for free Mac antivirus. I only know of two: ClamXav and PC Tools iAntivirus. I can’t recommend PC Tools iAntivirus because it seems to have memory leaks problems. Also, most of their virus database is for classic OS threats yet iAntivirus only installs on OSX 10.5 and 10.6 with Intel hardware. ClamXav is ok if you know what you are doing but it is not terribly user friendly in my opinion. We will support ClamXav here if our students wish to install it however we do not currently require antivirus for Mac since we do not view it as a significant threat at this time. Starting with the spring semester, we began recommending MSE to our students instead of providing Sophos. No complaints from the students have made it to my ears and we have had no trouble with it on NAC 4.7.1. Brian – If I were in your situation, I would evaluate some of the bigger names in Mac antivirus like Trend Micro, Norton, Intego, etc and get a site license from one of them. Surely one of them would be willing to provide a Mac only site license. Matt Manous Client Support Specialist Young Harris College Office of Information Technology From: Cisco Clean Access Users and Administrators [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stanclift, Michael Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 3:10 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: Microsoft Security Essentials Mac, Anti-Virus, what? ;) Sadly, our previous license didn’t address Mac users either. Michael Stanclift | Network Analyst | Computer Services Rockhurst University | 1100 Rockhurst Road, Kansas City, MO 64110 Phone: 816.501.4231 | Fax: 816.501.4014 | http://help.rockhurst.edu<http://help.rockhurst.edu/> Help keep our campus green, think before you print! RUCS will never ask you for your password! From: Cisco Clean Access Users and Administrators [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Beausoleil, Brian Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 1:54 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: Microsoft Security Essentials Michael, So how do you handle AV on the Macintosh side? Our site license encompasses Windows and Macintosh so I would still need to provide a different AV solution to that side of the house if we discontinued that license. Brian Beausoleil - Network Administrator Office of Information Technology SOUTHERN CT STATE UNIVERSITY [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> On Jun 28, 2010, at 2:27 PM, Stanclift, Michael wrote: We made the exact same switch on the 4.1.x series, and have had no problems. Love it, way better than McAfee and a lot easier to update and distribute. Did it concurrently with a switch to Forefront for all managed systems. http://help.rockhurst.edu/msav Michael Stanclift | Network Analyst | Computer Services Rockhurst University | 1100 Rockhurst Road, Kansas City, MO 64110 Phone: 816.501.4231 | Fax: 816.501.4014 | http://help.rockhurst.edu<http://help.rockhurst.edu/> Help keep our campus green, think before you print! RUCS will never ask you for your password! From: Cisco Clean Access Users and Administrators [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Beausoleil, Brian Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 1:04 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Microsoft Security Essentials Currently we are licensed to provide McAfee Enterprise to our students. I am trying to gauge how well Microsoft Security Essentials protects student machines, and how nice it plays with Cisco NAC 4.7.x. The release notes say it is a support antivirus package, so before we move from 4.1.x to 4.7.x this summer I want to know if its worth pitching to management that we switch from Mcafee to MSE. I appreciate the responses on your experiences. Thanks in advance to all replies and have a great summer. Brian Beausoleil - Network Administrator Office of Information Technology SOUTHERN CT STATE UNIVERSITY [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
