Unless the uninstaller has changed, it didn't work very well for us either with Symantec. It ended up being easier to remove it from each workstation and then push down the Vipre agent.
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 1:10 PM, John Aldrich <[email protected]>wrote: > I can't speak for Symantec, but at least for AVG 8.5, Vipre's uninstaller > didn't do a very good job of removing it, and several times I had to go to > the local machine and manually delete the service. YMMV, though. > > > > From: Alex Eckelberry [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 12:52 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Vipre and deployment > > http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/Agent-Uninstallers/ > > > > From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 12:41 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Vipre and deployment > > We still use Symantec on all our workstations. Would love to move over to > Vipre. We have about a hundred workstations. Would I still have to go to > all > the workstations to change from Symantec to Vipre or is there now a way to > do this from the server? > > From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 11:56 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Vipre and deployment > > Yea, if I do it with the Console, I need to enable file and print services > on the wkst etc… > If I use a GPO, I don’t. > > From: Eric Wittersheim [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 9:55 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Vipre and deployment > > You can deploy Vipre as an MSI from the console. I suppose that you can > push the MSI with GP if you like. > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Joseph L. Casale > <[email protected]> wrote: > For you guys with experience using Vipre (I presume it’s come a long way by > now…) I am curious about a couple things. > > I gave up on Avira, my first point of support was the var in Canada who > proved beyond a shadow of a doubt to be useless. > Sophos required far too much reconfiguration of the wkst’s and didn’t offer > their agent as an MSI so I could roll it out myself. > Awaiting info from Kasperksy… > Can the agents for Vipre be provided by MSI’s so I don’t have to change > anything on the wkst’s except maybe a port rule between it and the mgmt > host > after I push it via GP’s? > > Thanks! > jlc > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
