[OPLINTECH] Antivirus

[Chad Neeper]

It occurs to me that I may have hijacked Kevin's thread. (Sorry, Kevin!)

IMHO, I've always considered AVG to be on a par with Symantec as far as
protection against threats. As far as I'm concerned, if you're comfortable
in decommissioning SEP and learning/rolling out AVG, then the price seems
pretty darned good.

If it were my own network, I'd have to consider the cost savings versus the
amount of hassle to switch products. I'd also have to do a feature
comparison to make sure that I wouldn't lose a feature that's important.
While I'm not overly familiar with AVG's ISBE, it's very likely to be very
feature-for-feature comparable to SEP. If that's true, then you're down to
the money you save versus the hassle (time=money) to change products. If
you're planning to roll out new workstations, then that would be a very
good time to change AV products and you'll maximize your cost savings.
However, if you're not rolling out new workstations, then you'll have to
retrofit all your existing workstations, which will eat into (and maybe
eliminate entirely) your net savings...

I'm sure the big guys would disagree, but it seems to me that there isn't
really a whole lot of difference between the big AV products out there.
Some may work better (or not) than others in certain circumstances, but
generally they seem to be almost approaching commodity-ness. (Yes, I made
that word up.) If that's true, then I'd probably need a significant net
cost savings or really want a specific feature that isn't currently
available to me to get me to switch products. Or I'd have to be
specifically unhappy with my current product and/or company. Without some
solid tangible net benefit, though, it seems a little "change for the sake
of change" to me...

Two cents.
Chad

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On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Kevin Jones <kjones at coshoctonlibrary.org>
wrote:

> Coshocton Public Library has been using Symantec Endpoint Protection from
> Techsoup for the past few years along with DeepFreeze on the public
> computers.
>
> Just this week, my Director forwarded me an email from an AVG sales rep.
>  AVG is offering an Educational Promotion with the following details:
>
>    - $1.00 per computer per year for a three year agreement
>    - Buyout promotion where they will buy out your current anti-virus
>    contract regardless of how long or how new your contract is
>    - Also, the tech support is free and US based.
>
> I think the product they are offering is the AVG Internet Security
> Business Edition.  What is your thoughts?  Should I make the jump from SEP?
>  Is anyone using this product?
>
> I use SEP as a server installation with managed clients.  I don't know if
> AVG can be setup this way or not.
>
>
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