Our corporation has been using Symantec Antivirus corporate for years with no problems. We've been very happy with it. We have about 55 client PCs and 5 servers. However, I've heard nothing but awful reviews of their latest version, Endpoint Protection 11. Resource hogging and network issues were major problems cited with this latest edition from Symantec.
Because of this, I thought it might be a good time to switch to a different product. We purchased licenses for McAfee Entrerprise AV (8.7i) and deployed it along with the McAfee Agent on about half of our machines. Of those machines, half of them are fine, and the other half, including mine, have been crippled by McAfee AV. My normally fast machine now takes about 5 minutes to load. Most programs, but mainly IE7, hang constantly between web requests. As in, no spinning indicator showing that it's working on something- IE just hangs all the time. Working with their tech support has gained us nothing except "we haven't heard anything about computers slowing down from this". We even dropped down to 8.5 and experienced the same results. I was unable to do a system restore unless I was in safe mode after uninstalling McAfee. Now that I've done a full restore, my system is still not what it was before McAfee. Needless to say, we are done with McAfee. In all my years of IT I've never seen a program cripple an operating system like McAfee AV has. I can't think of any commonality between the machines that are affected vs. those that run fine. No significant processor or memory usage is visible during these system hangs so it's not a resource issue.
Does anyone have any suggestions for enterprise AV besides Symantec and McAfee?
Because of this, I thought it might be a good time to switch to a different product. We purchased licenses for McAfee Entrerprise AV (8.7i) and deployed it along with the McAfee Agent on about half of our machines. Of those machines, half of them are fine, and the other half, including mine, have been crippled by McAfee AV. My normally fast machine now takes about 5 minutes to load. Most programs, but mainly IE7, hang constantly between web requests. As in, no spinning indicator showing that it's working on something- IE just hangs all the time. Working with their tech support has gained us nothing except "we haven't heard anything about computers slowing down from this". We even dropped down to 8.5 and experienced the same results. I was unable to do a system restore unless I was in safe mode after uninstalling McAfee. Now that I've done a full restore, my system is still not what it was before McAfee. Needless to say, we are done with McAfee. In all my years of IT I've never seen a program cripple an operating system like McAfee AV has. I can't think of any commonality between the machines that are affected vs. those that run fine. No significant processor or memory usage is visible during these system hangs so it's not a resource issue.
Does anyone have any suggestions for enterprise AV besides Symantec and McAfee?