> -----Original Message----- > From: Justin F. Knox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 6, 2003 11:43 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Anit-Virus Software > > In the field, I have worked with McAfee, CA, Symantec (Norton) and Trend > Micro.
I've also worked with SOPHOS. Nice product, VERY lightweight as far as system impact goes, highly clueful tech support: at a now-2-years-dead dotcom I worked for, it identified one of our custom Java applets as viral. With a code sample and a copy of the AV message, they had an updated definitions file to us in 4 hours. . . and pushed it out to the world as well. My only gripe about them is their automatic definition update and remote installation software were a little kludgy, but that WAS 2 + years ago. Bottom line: SOPHOS is good people with a good product. We preferred them to Symantec due to a recurring bug with Symantec Corporate Edition that kept crashing our main fileserver every few days. . . > I'll have to agree re: CA. CA's software is klunky, and causes no end of > frustration for all involved. If they'd focus on solid apps rather than > solid licensing...they'd be in better shape. The less said about CA, the better (g) > McAfee is okay, but I don't much like having to work with ePolicy > Orchestrator We have McAffee on the desktop here, it's alright, but nothing spectacular. . . > Trend, I've only worked with on a desktop (consumer rather than corporate). > it seems rather solid, and doesn't interfere much Their VirusWall product for incoming email is a nice piece of software, and works quite well, from my experience. . . --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
