We are just about to complete a move from McAfee to Vipre Enterprise. Our contract with McAfee is up on March 28th, I'll finish all the servers in March 27th. The cost to move to Vipre along with Ninja was significantly less than it would have been for us to renew our McAfee contract for 3 years.
Personally I can say that when I started rolling out Vipre to the workstations the reports that I was getting on what Vipre was finding like trojans, backdoors malware, etc etc. was really amazing, and McAfee never even noticed these things. I can't speak for Sunbelt's sales, but I do know that last year they were being extremely competitive to get people to move to Vipre Enterprise. Try to get your management to at least get a quote from them, and then demo it for 30 days and see what it finds vs. what McAfee finds. On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Ray <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/> ~ > -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
