I support Trend WorryFree 6.0 at a client of 55, Vipre at home, a client of 17 and a client of 10. I also use McAfee (ePO4.5, Agent 4.5, VScan 8.7) at %DAYJOB% (450 seats). Vipre still eats the occasional legitimate *.EXE (Outlook being the most common).
None of the 3 generate performance-related tickets once configured (read: exceptions made per Microsoft and other vendor's recommendations). McAfee offers *incredible* granularity compared to Trend and Vipre, but it's console is a kludge. I've spent so much time with it I'm OK with it now though. Trend and McAfee offer granular firewall control of inbound and outbound (Win2K8 / Vista/Win7 make this moot). McAfee gives the power to make machines a kiosk if company policy would allow. You can use it as a poor-man's SMS and get notified of new *.EXE's in Windows, Program Files, and Temp folders (and block/allow within each one if you want). You can see (and or block) new items in HKLM\Softare\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. Etc etc. As far as how well they protect, that's very tough for me to say which is best. They are varying environments and the users have very different mentalities, but I have had zero infections on any of my clients' PC's in the last 7 years. In general though, I prefer Trend, probably because I've used it the longest and in spite of me knowing McAfee better. I'm satisfied with Vipre enough to not get rid of it, but between Vipre and Trend I'd recommend Trend. Full disclosure: I have 7 years experience directly supporting Trend, 2 supporting McAfee and 1.5 supporting Vipre. By "directly support" I mean I actually am in the consoles once a week or better and can stand-up/deploy any one of these three to a 200-user cent soup-to-nuts in one business day - none of this "well, I've been in the client GUI a couple times/month in the last couple years". David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 1:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VIPRE versus Trend All, We're looking to move away from McAfee. Right now we're considering Trend Micro OfficeScan Enterprise and the VIPRE Enterprise products. Anyone here (aside from Sunbelt employees) have any experience with both of the current or relatively current iterations of the products? Can you provide any reasons to choose one over the other, aside from price? Thanks in advance, Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA [email protected]<BLOCKED::mailto:%[email protected]> www.eaglemds.com<BLOCKED::http://www.eaglemds.com/> ________________________________ Any medical information contained in this electronic message is CONFIDENTIAL and privileged. It is unlawful for unauthorized persons to view, copy, disclose, or disseminate CONFIDENTIAL information. This electronic message may contain information that is confidential and/or legally privileged. It is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and/or entity named as recipients in the message. If you are not an intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete this material from your computer. Do not deliver, distribute or copy this message, and do not disclose its contents or take any action in reliance on the information that it contains. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
