[OPLINTECH] Enterprise type antivirus/antimalware

[Dan Will]

Matt,
    I'm glad that Mohamed has had  a good experience with Vexira but, we
haven't and I can't recommend Vexira. Their support has stunk from the get
-go. I hate to say this as they are an Ohio company, and I'd prefer to buy
local. They have not updated their software to work correctly with Vista,
let alone W7 (at last check about a month ago). They promised me that they
were working on a script to work with Windows SteadyState as well and that
was 2 +years ago. Still no script. I tried using their server setup to
download the updates (to cut down on the amount of downloads to each pc). It
almost never updated the pc correctly. They blamed it on a bad T-1 that they
had connecting their update server to ours. Funny that it never failed to
download to the clients, just our server. As per their directions I
un-installed and re-installed the software (and the updates as well) not
once but three times. It would work for a while (just long enough that I
thought the problem was fixed) then start failing again.  Their support is
basically just a wiki (and not an up to date one).
On the upside, it is cheaper than any other AV that I've used and it has
kept our computers virus free.
I hate to speak badly of any company on a list but, I feel that our
experiences with them should be known.

Dan Will
Technology Supervisor
Meigs County District Public Library
willda at oplin.org
740.992.5813
740.992.6140 (fax)


The difference between fiction and reality?
Fiction has to make sense.
Tom Clancy




-----Original Message-----
From: oplintech-bounces at oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-bounces at oplin.org] On
Behalf Of Mohamed Ragheb
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 11:29 AM
To: 'Matt Hoffman'; oplintech at oplin.org
Subject: Re: [OPLINTECH] Enterprise type antivirus/antimalware

Take a look at Vexira...they saved me big money before switching from
McAfee, it ran pretty good for the time I used them.
Thanks

Mohamed A. Ragheb, M.TEC, M.C.P.
Technology Manager
Wadsworth Public Library
132 Broad Street
Wadsworth, OH 44281-1897
Phone: 330-335-2600
Fax: 330-334-6605
http://www.wadsworthlibrary.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: oplintech-bounces at oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-bounces at oplin.org] On
Behalf Of Matt Hoffman
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 11:02 AM
To: oplintech at oplin.org
Subject: [OPLINTECH] Enterprise type antivirus/antimalware

Hi!

We're going to be coming up on a renewal of our McAfee licenses soon, and I
wanted to see if anyone had any strong recommendations for other system-wide
type products.  We're currently using McAfee Enterprise with the EPolicy
orchestrator, plus Groupshield for Exchange 2003.  I'm just not happy with
how much of a system hog this software is.  I'd really like something that
can run lighter, but still be accurate about antivirus and antimalware, as
well as be centrally pushed and managed like we currently can do. 

I'm looking into the Microsoft Forefront product, but setup has been a major
pain, what with a requirement of SQL 2005 (can't run with 2008 server), and
lack of demo versions of 2005 out there.  Any other suggestions for trials?

Thanks for any help,

Matt Hoffman
Network Administrator
Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library Ph. 216.932.3600 ext 284

 
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