Paul, as one of Sunbelt's founders, you can take this with the required grain(s) of salt for built-in bias. Having said that though...
When you have more than a few dozen machines, the Admin console becomes a big deal. I would take that as a heavily weighted part of the decision. VIPRE 5 just came out and admins love the console. Otherwise, you need to look at effectiveness and then price. Virus Bulletin compares all of them regularly, you want to be very high in the top right. http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/RAP/RAP-quadrant-Apr-Oct11-850.jpg Last but not least, 45% of malware infections are caused by user interaction. In other words, they get social engineered to click on a link, and thus bypass your AV and firewall in many cases. Training your users really, really helps a lot to cut down on infections, and prevent bad guys from penetrating the network. This is what I do at the moment, and I will send you a free email exposure check that shows you how many emails of your are floating out there. VIPRE, NOD32, Kaspersky and Sophos are all good products, but YMMV. Warm regards, Stu From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 7:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Antivirus Recommendations? Our Avira Antivir license is up for renewal in a couple of months. Whilst we've had no significant issues, I want to look at a couple of other options so that even if we stay with Avira it's for the right technical reasons. We have around 550 PC's, a mix of Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, predominantly 32bit with some x64. I'd be looking for a mixture of good centralised management (this almost always seems to rule out many vendors) combined with low client footprint - and something that is totally "hands off" from the end user perspective and that "just works". Suggestions? Thanks, Paul ________________________________ MIRA Ltd Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 VAT Registration GB 100 1464 84 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you receive this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify us either by e-mail, telephone or fax. You should not copy, forward or otherwise disclose the content of the e-mail as this is prohibited. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
