You must've inherited our CIO. We tried to dump them last year, had all but the signed the contract with NOD32. Not only would we rid of a horrible solution, but it would've saved us thousands of dollars.
At the 11th hour our CIO overrode his IT team and decided to re-sign with McAfee. He'd never heard of Nod32. -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Changing AV from Symantec to Mcaffee - Good or Bad? Because, unfortunately, it's not my decision. Our CIO apparently likes McAfee, and the McAfee sales people are telling him that their "catch" rates are much better than Symantec or Forefront. No one here has heard of Vipre, and I don't have enough pull to do more than mildly suggest it. I'm going to keep my ears open, though, and try to do some of that mild suggesting, to see where it gets me... We're looking at going into a big EA with Microsoft, and part of that package is that Forefront would be included. Anyone have any bad stories about that one? I personally just don't know if I'm comfortable with Microsoft AV on Microsoft OS, but that may just be me... >>> "Andrew S. Baker" <[email protected]> 3/11/2010 3:36 PM >>> I hate them both, but even comparatively, you're going from bad to worse. Why not any of the plethora of other options? ------Original Message------ From: Joseph Heaton To: NT Issues ReplyTo: NT Issues Subject: Changing AV from Symantec to Mcaffee - Good or Bad? Sent: Mar 11, 2010 5:22 PM Discuss please. Personally, I'm very much against it. I've had a bad taste in my mouth for McAfee from way back in the Code Red days... (72 hours to recover, 70 of which I was in the server room) I also don't care for Symancrap, but that's mainly due to the bloat, and how hard it is to get rid of... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ -ASB: http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker Sent from my Verizon Smartphone ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
