[OPLINTECH] Enterprise type antivirus/antimalware

Fri Feb 12 22:07:05 EST 2010

We switched to AVG from Symantec for our clients about 2 years ago. It was about half the price of renewing the Symantec and it isn't anywhere near the system hog that Symantec is/was. In my opinion AVG has done a fine job of protecting our machines. It's not perfect but what issues we've had on it in the past two years, I can count on one hand. That is more than I can say for the old Symantec Security. We still use Symantec Premium Anti-Spam for our Exchange. Although it is a huge resource monster, it does a fine job of blocking the spam. It just takes some trial and error to keep it from being too over protective. But once you get it configured to your liking, it's pretty much hands off. Good luck on which ever you choose!

Head of Automated Services
Joshua Proffit
740-349-5586
jproffit at lickingcountylibrary.info

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From: oplintech-bounces at oplin.org on behalf of Mann, James H.
Sent: Fri 2/12/2010 7:57 PM
To: Chad; oplintech at oplin.org
Subject: Re: [OPLINTECH] Enterprise type antivirus/antimalware

For what it is worth I'm switching from Trend to Kaspersky this weekend.
I've been fighting a bad conflicker infection and Trend just isn't doing the job any more.
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From: oplintech-bounces at oplin.org [oplintech-bounces at oplin.org] On Behalf Of Chad [chad at knox.net]
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 7:04 PM
To: oplintech at oplin.org
Subject: Re: [OPLINTECH] Enterprise type antivirus/antimalware

Thought I'd throw my two cents in.  We also went with Vexira since they were
an Ohio company, but had experiences similar to Dan's.  It was constantly
crashing and not sending updates to clients. We must have uninstalled and
reinstalled over 8 times. We went so far as to rebuild the server it was
running on with no luck.  They were quite persistent in wanting our
business, but then support was lackluster. We have switched back to Symantec
for now until the license runs out.

Chad Nichols
Network/Systems Administrator
201 N. Mulberry St.
Mount Vernon, OH  43050
(740) 392-2665
www.knox.net

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From: oplintech-bounces at oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-bounces at oplin.org] On
Behalf Of Dan Will
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 12:00 PM
To: 'Mohamed Ragheb'; 'Matt Hoffman'; oplintech at oplin.org
Subject: Re: [OPLINTECH] Enterprise type antivirus/antimalware

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

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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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