On Sunday, February 8, 2004, 16:57:35, Marcus Ohlstr�m wrote: > On Sunday, February 8, 2004, 15:00, Jernej Simon�i� wrote: >> plus their support is one of the worst I've ever had to deal with - > Ack! I manage about 50 computers and did a long time ago choose SAV as > our AV product. I have many time regretted my choice - mostly based on > their catastrophic support - and are currently looking for an > alternative. Right now I am investigating F-Secure, but I haven't made > up my mind yet.
We primarily use Trend Micro PC Cillin at work, and so far hadn't had any major problems (the built-in firewall in 2004 seems to dislike our network, but that can be easily disabled). Currently, we're also evaluating eTrust, which is interesting primarily because it's licence doesn't have to be renewed after 1 year in order to continue getting new definitions, and also because it seems to be the only antivirus available now, which still supports Windows 95 (some of our clients still use that). One of our clients also has F-Secure. While it seems to have almost no impact on performance (pretty important, as they have some old Compaqs, which are slow even without the antivirus), there were 2 things that bothered me: - by default it's set to update once per week only (can be easily changed, but whoever installed it, forgot to do it) - it doesn't seem to have any way to specify what to do if the preferred action on infected files failed (eg. with other AVs I can specify to try to disinfect the file, and if that fails, to quarantine/delete it; with F-Secure I only have the choices Disinfect/Delete/Rename/Ignore, and if disinfect is selected, F-Secure will automatically rename the file it can't disinfect - then find it again next time you access the folder) -- begin .sig < Jernej Simoncic >< http://deepthought.ena.si/ > [The Bat! v2.03 Beta/53 on Windows NT Clone 5.2.3790.] Performance is directly affected by the perversity of inanimate objects. -- Boyle's Ninth Law end ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 2.03 Beta/59 | "Using TBBETA" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
