I've heard much more bad things than good. Which is depressing, since Im stil slated to have to install it myself. Here's a bit of a posting from a local Boston-area UG withing the past 24 hours:
Subject: [...] TechTips: Anyone been using Symantec EndPoint Protection? Msg Body: I have been a bit so far... What a POS... So far, it has taken down a DC, installed some firewall called "Network Threat Protection" (even when you don't want it to), and magically overwritten its own policies (which are managed from a centralized server). My favorite feature of the "Network Threat Prevention" is that it seemingly cuts off access to those pesky network shares. Oyyy. Follup up from OP: Oyyyy….. Amazingly, the product deployed OK in my test environment… Ugh… Reply: Oyyy is right, didn't you see my rant last week on Endpoint? :-P Replier's post from previous week: We had deployed Endpoint to a couple of our customers, then a week later we were back to remove it. It is a huge pig. It slowed down the servers and the network. It downloaded many GB of "Updates" to the C: drive which filled the HDD in a couple days. (even though it was installed on a different drive. There are some docs on how to tell it to move some of the updates to a different drive, but it doesn't do all of it). We rolled these customers back to SAV Corp 10.2. After doing some research on the web, we found this was a common complaint. On Jan 23, 2008 4:50 PM, Bill Songstad (WCUL) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's too bad that system footprint wasn't measured. That would have > changed things around a bit. But maybe the new Symantec product is > improved over their previous offerings. They're going to have to show > up as best in show quite a bit more often to win my business back > though. > > Bill Songstad > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Schorr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 12:22 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Latest antivirus test results from Andreas Marx in XLS > format > > I'm a little surprised that Symantec DID make it into that group. > > Ben M. Schorr > Chief Executive Officer > ______________________________________________ > Roland Schorr & Tower > www.rolandschorr.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 10:17 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Latest antivirus test results from Andreas Marx in XLS > format > > Unremarkably, its a 4-way tie (based on average marks) between: > > AntiVir > F-Secure > Symantec > Trend Micro > > > Converting the chart to a scale of 1-5; each of the above vendors > scored a 4.4 average. > > I find it hard to beleive that NOD32 didnt make it into that group. > Based on my own prior testing, I'm very surprised. > > > On Jan 23, 2008 2:55 PM, Sam Cayze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > For those that don't read SunBelt's Blog, Alex shared a very nice > AntiVirus > > comparison Report made by Andreas Marx of Av-Test.org > > > > I thought it was neat/interesting. > > > > > http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/latest-antivirus-test-results-fr > om.html > > > > > > > > The file in XLS, easier to read than the PDF: > > > http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/latest-antivirus-test-results-fr > om_23.html > > > > > > > > -Sam > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: Sauvigne, Craig M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 1:48 PM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Computer forensics training > > > > > > > > > > I am looking into computer forensics training to better assist in > computer > > crime issues with our campus police department. I am looking to learn > things > > such as data recovery from formatted media to tracking emails to > recovering > > web browsing history and everything else I can learn. I know how to do > some > > of these things to a certain degree but would really like to get more > in > > depth and formal training. > > > > > > > > Does anyone know of a good company that trains in this area? I prefer > > classroom training to online but would work with online. I have found > a few > > by searching online but I would like to get opinions from some people > who > > have taken similar training and can recommend places based on > firsthand > > knowledge. > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > ==================== > > > > Craig M. 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