Corporate AV Solution

[bekdik]

Trend is working for me.

I find it easy to manage and, since installing, haven't had any virus outbreaks.

The only issue at one site was that their Win XP pc's without sp3 slowed to a crawl, which was a blessing as management who'd been against upgrading were finally convinced!

 

[Fulcrum29]

I have been in this industry very long, many clients… Well, long story.

To give an indication:

Check http://www.prevx.com/
Right-bottom (Prevx Malware Center)
Click, “Threats missed by other vendors”

That should provide good statistics, DAILY, it changes.

As per me, I promote Panda Cloud Security (due to reporting and management reasons)

So:

1. Panda
2. Sophos
3. Microsoft
4. Webroot
5. BitDefender (used by Mac)

And then optional:
1. CensorNet
2. Webroot (Web Security)

Linux:

ClamAV (only used this, also to integrate on hosting platforms)

All of this depends on the requirements or contract agreements, this can go in depth, but I’m very strong Panda. You can contact tepsa.co.za, should you want Pro advice regarding Panda. They will also provide you with hardware Firewall advice.

Anyway, I only serve those for who I outsource.

 

[graviti]

I can in no way believe that anyone in their right mind would format and reload 14 server and 150 workstation to remove an antivirus. Absolute worst case scenario would be to write a script that removes all the Kaspersky related registry keys and run it on all the devices.

In an ideal world. We uninstalled, and reinstalled. Didn't work. We ran scripts removing reg keys, deleting any random dll files etc, yet after a re-install it still didn't work. We found that if we took the machine off our network, and reinstalled it worked, until it hooked back up to our network. Then the corruptions started again. We killed the server with the console, and tried again. We still to this day have no idea what caused it. Even the vendors don't. Probably some anomaly in our setup, but yeah. Fortunately the workstations are easy, as we had 8 month old images. Rolled out a fresh image to one machine (All our images are sans AV), ran Windows Updates etc, re-imaged, and rolled it out to workstations. The server were the real problem. Kaspersky crashed File and Print Sharing on an important server of ours. Caused a lot of hassle. As I said it was great up until the surge, and thats when the faeces raised itself to the atmospheric disturbance manipulator. Basically ended up with horrible situation. Management decided they couldn't trust it after that. (Mainly that backup support from vendor made JZ look awesome)