Which AntiVirus product to your recomment?

[DOSA]

Greetings All:

I am trying to decide which Enterprise Antivirus package to go with and was wondering if some of you can share your thoughts on the following: TrendMicro Client/Server/Messaging Security for SMB, Sophos Enterprise Endpoint Security, and Symantec Antivirus Enterprise 10.1.

I have evaluated all three already, but wanted to hear some feedbacks from those of you who have or are
currently using these products to see what your experience was/is like.

Also, I have heard that of the three, Sophos puts the least amount of strain on the CPU...is this correct?

Thank you in advance!!

 

[DOSA]

Sorry folks, I can't spell.

The subject should read Which AntiVirus Products Do You Recommend?

 

[ITAudit]

Hi

This is my first post, so I hope it's useful!

I'm not sure whether you're asking about effectiveness or usability.

If it's effectiveness you're after, check out

http://www.virus.gr

who go to the trouble of testing antivirus products against a rather large virus zoo.

Based upon the latest August 2006 test, TrendMicro detect 80.9%, Sophos 69.48%, and Symantec 83.18%.

All rather poor I'd say. Even free antivirus programs do quite well in comparison: Avast 87.46% and AVG 82.82%.

My advice would be to forget the three you're looking at and go for a Kaspersky based antivirus. By that I mean either Kaspersky itself, or F-Secure. In the same test, Kaspersky detected 99.62% and F-Secure 96.86%.

As far as useability goes, I couldn't comment, but I do know Symantec based antivirus products slow up the host PC quite a bit. I've never been a fan.

Cheers

 

[ntco]

I switched to Frisk's F-Prot from Norton over a year ago for our small business and I love it. I was really looking for a small footprint and affordability without suffering in detection rates and it pretty much delivers. However the new windows version released in beta is even better.

At the time, I was looking into Sophos, TrendMicro and F-Secure

 

[porkchopexpress]

We have just moved from Symantec Corp to NOD32 and it's a big improvment, the management tools are good and the detection seems to be incredibly fast. I couldn't get the Eicar test virus anywhere near a box with NOD32 on but SAV needed a few seconds to see it or sometimes the file needed executing.

http://www.eset.com/

The also score highly on the Virus Bulletin.

http://www.eset.com/company/awards.php

 

[PGoRule]

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[sggaunt]

IMHO: which AV you use if a matter of 'Horses for courses', it depends on the users and the situation.

For example. I (hopefully) know what I am doing around PC's and use a combination defence of several Free malware scanners ZA and AVG free.

A large enough company might use a combination of 'paid for solutions'
For a single user who only knows how to turn the PC on, I would recommend using a paid for automatic all round solution like Norton, This is a poor option but I cant see any other way around it for this sort of user.

An old guy I know has this sort of setup (it came preinstalled with his HP box from PC world) but when he asked me why the box was slowing down, I found a nasty 'Toolbar' had got through amongst lots of other tracking cookies.




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