[OPLINTECH] AntiVirus Products

[Jim Kenzig]

Have you looked at Kaspersky lately? They have greatly enhanced their
offerings, I wonder if anyone has gotten discounts or purchased or priced
their enterprise packages and the comparisons.
http://usa.kaspersky.com/products-services/business/total-space-security

Regards,
Jim Kenzig

> Tom,
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> We used Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager 11 for a while before
> upgrading to AVG Business. I didn't feel that the management options for
> Symantec were good enough. It was difficult to initiate scans from the
> console on a remote computer and hard to find the status of the scan. I
> like the AVG console better. I think that AVG uses less resources and
> protects better than Symantec. Symantec really seemed to bog down my
> systems. The deployment tools for AVG are definitely much better than
> Symantec. You can deploy the client to a single system, or pick from
> active directory, using the console; or you can create a deployment
> script and push it  out through Configuration Manager like I do.
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> AVG is a better price\performance option than Symantec. If I were to
> quote the possible downsides, my little annoyance with AVG is that it
> seems to always want a system reboot to install new updates, and I try
> to limit reboots as much as possible in our environment. Feel free to
> contact me via email if you have further questions.
>
>
>
> Greg Kozick
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> System Support Specialist
>
> Akron-Summit County Public Library
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> p:  330-643-9144
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> e: gkozick at akronlibrary.org
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>
> From: oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org
> [mailto:oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org] On Behalf Of Tom Casey
> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 12:50 PM
> To: oplintech at lists.oplin.org
> Subject: [OPLINTECH] AntiVirus Products
>
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> Greetings:
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>
> We are considering our antivirus product options. Currently, we use
> Symantec Corporate Edition  and plan to upgrade to Endpoint if we renew
> our licensing. However, we are also taking this opportunity to see what
> else is out there. So far, only AVG Business Edition offers comparable
> pricing to what we are now paying for Symantec. Is anyone using AVG
> business edition,  and if so, can you offer any comments or incites? Is
> anyone using another product that they can recommend? A key requirement
> for us is centralized deployment and management.
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> Thanks
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> Tom Casey
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> System Administrator
>
> Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County
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> 330.744.8636 x 51612
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