All good to hear! 

 

From: John Cook [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 7:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Changing AV from Symantec to Mcaffee - Good or Bad?

 

+1. Just finishing our transition from McCrappy, lots of things coming up on 
initial deep scans. 

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From: Sherry Abercrombie 
To: NT System Admin Issues 
Sent: Thu Mar 11 21:14:57 2010
Subject: Re: Changing AV from Symantec to Mcaffee - Good or Bad? 

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...


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