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Post #321,641
by scoenye
2/17/10 7:06:30 PM
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New Anyone here on top of a corporate antivirus?
I'm trying to get Symantec Endpoint Protection 11 out the door and need to come up with a replacement.

If it takes less than two takes of two days to get running properly, has a halfway decent console, does not download 1GB+ updates a day and does not use 3 different database engines, I'll be happy...

I have had past exposure to McAfee's enterprise product, so I pretty much know what to expect from those parts. We're interested in Kasperski and Avast based on the results of the standard client (on the hope the results transplant to the enterprise client.)
Post #321,651
by boxley
2/17/10 10:41:30 PM
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New vade retro, engate, cloudmark, comtouch
Bizanga and Message systems might be overkill we noticed that using hashed antispam software algorithms stopped 99.9% of virii
If we torture the data long enough, it will confess. (Ronald Coase, Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, 1991)
Post #321,699
by scoenye
2/18/10 7:31:30 PM
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New Thanks, but spam is not so much the problem
Our mail goes through Postini and that is working pretty well. I'm looking more at the traditional desktop malware. IE is the primary vector. This is a fairly open school environment so nailing things shut does not work very well.
Post #321,702
by boxley
2/18/10 8:25:46 PM
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New hmmm, trying to stop endusers from downloading crud?
have you looked at clamwin?
If we torture the data long enough, it will confess. (Ronald Coase, Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, 1991)
Post #321,741
by scoenye
2/19/10 9:10:36 PM
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New That's about it
Although its not even consciously downloaded crud. Almost every other ad these days seems to contain a rogue AV downloader.

Doesn't look like Clamwin is going to make the grade. No on-access scanning makes it a lame duck for production use. We're definitely not looking for, or expecting, a free fix (cheap, maybe, but that is another matter ;) That's why I was hoping that some folks here had experience with one of the enterprise editions.
Post #321,749
by boxley
2/19/10 10:36:03 PM
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New well we offer those things but its up the whazoo expensive
and klunky. When I ran a small shop Kapersky is what I reccomended but that was a lot of years ago
If we torture the data long enough, it will confess. (Ronald Coase, Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, 1991)
     Anyone here on top of a corporate antivirus? - (scoenye) - (5) - Feb. 17, 2010, 07:06:30 PM EST
         vade retro, engate, cloudmark, comtouch - (boxley) - (4) - Feb. 17, 2010, 10:41:30 PM EST
             Thanks, but spam is not so much the problem - (scoenye) - (3) - Feb. 18, 2010, 07:31:30 PM EST
                 hmmm, trying to stop endusers from downloading crud? - (boxley) - (2) - Feb. 18, 2010, 08:25:46 PM EST
                     That's about it - (scoenye) - (1) - Feb. 19, 2010, 09:10:36 PM EST
                         well we offer those things but its up the whazoo expensive - (boxley) - Feb. 19, 2010, 10:36:03 PM EST

You're typing on a device that stores trillions of pieces of data and makes billions of computations per second with the ability to grab data on almost anything from around the world in milliseconds, using electricity transmitted from hundreds of kilometers through wires on towers dozens of meters tall connected to megastructures that do things like burn coal as fast as entire trains can pull into the yard, or spin in the wind with blades the size of jumbo jets, or the like, which were delivered to their location by vehicles with computer-timed engines burning a fuel that was pumped up halfway around the world from up to half a dozen kilometers underground and locked into complex strata (through wells drilled by diamond-lined bores that can be remote-control steered as they go), shipped around the world in tankers with volumes the size of large city blocks and the height of apartment complexes, run through complex chemical processes in unimaginable quantities, distributed nationwide and sold to you at a corner store for $1.80 a gallon, which you then pay for with a little piece of microchipped plastic, if not a smartphone, which does all of the aforementioned computer stuff but in a box the size of your hand that tolerates getting beaten up in your pocket all day.

But technology never seems to advance...


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