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On Sep 15, 2017 8:02 AM, "Erik Goldoff" <[email protected]> wrote: > Disclaimer, I'm biased because I work for Symantec now (NOT in sales), and > know many of you love to hate .... but > > I was not a fan of early Symantec AV, and would not have come to work for > them in the SAV days. > I'd give SEP 14 another look, many advanced features, including some > exploit protection. > > Couldn't hurt to download a trialware and test for yourself, and if you > still don't like it, you'll have fact based decisions and not opinions and > emotions > > On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 10:34 AM, Michael Leone <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 9:31 AM, Michael Leone <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> We use Kaspersky for our AV needs, and to be honest, it's worked out >> >> well for us. It's certainly caught things that McAfee, our previous AV >> >> solution, didn't. However, they have this slight problem with being a >> >> covert arm of the Russian government, apparently .. >> > >> > Citation needed. I have not seen anything that supports the idea that >> > Kaspersky is an arm of the Russian government. >> >> Tell that to the US government .. LOL >> >> >> So we need to drop them, as the federal agencies are doing. >> > >> > Is this a requirement by law/regulation for your departement? If not, >> > don't drop them, at least not for the reason stated above. >> >> My boss says it's not meeting our needs, and it will be replaced, so >> the requirement is for me to obey orders and keep my job. LOL >> >> Listen, I'm happy with Kaspersky, and I would recommend keeping it. >> But I have an idea that this is a mandate from farther high up. >> Especially seeing as to how we are a state agency, I guess my CIO >> doesn't want to spend time explaining to our board of commissioners >> why the feds are wrong, and we're keeping Kaspersky when they aren't >> ... >> >> > We have Eset, and I'd drop them in a heartbeat, if I could. Not >> > because it's a bad product of its kind - far from it. It's been fairly >> > good. >> > >> > Instead, I'd go with Applocker, and removing admin privileges - we >> > already do patching fairly well. >> >> The order was for AV, since we need to do local workstations and >> remote devices. So we will. >> >> Also, no one here (including me) knows Applocker, and there's not a >> lot of support here, besides me, for anything OS or AD related .. >> >> >> >
