We're dumping Symantec! Recommend an ENTERPRISE a/v

After a week from hell cleaning 600 desktops and 90 servers of malware due to a vulnerability in Symantec Antivirus, our powers that be have decided we are going to **** them. Fine by me.

I was wondering of your experiences with enterprise level antivirus/antimalware solutions. All things held equal (i.e., it's going to catch 99.9% of stuff assuming you keep it up to date), reliable and centralized management and deployment are very important to us. Secondary would be something that isn't horrible on system resources and that isn't known to interfere with other security software much - we also are planning to implement a desktop firewall solution.

Thanks

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Ye Gum Noki

We've used Symantec/Norton since 2000. NEVER had a virus (knocking on every piece of wood I can find, scratching a stay and turning around three times).

Also, it ain't cheap, or easy, to make an enterprise-wide change. But if I had to, I would to go trend-micro.

Ahriakin

Blended threats require blended response. We use Symantec at work and I am not a fan but as has been said none are perfect. We had a bad malware breakout right after I started with my current company, some spybotw32 variant that had propagated across about 20 sites before the AV even began to notice it. Now we still use Symantec on the clients and servers but to me that's the weakest part of the system...a fallback. the new IDS (and hopefully IPS to be funded soon) and monitoring sites like the SANS internet storm center and being pro-active in building IDS and firewall rules has had a dramatic impact. The single best example was that With warnings about the 2967 worm before Xmas we were setup (with fairly simple and cheap equipment) to alert and respond when the first instances appeared. 4 victim machines over 2 sites as opposed to the earlier Spybot mess. The only thing you can put your faith in is vigilance not any one software package....I wonder if I can get them to spring for HIPS too....;)

Ahriakin

Ye Gum Noki wrote:

Chapt3r:4 wrote:

Symantec is evil!
Right now its causing some serrrious issues with our FAT PC's (we have about 400 pcs in total - 20% of them fat) - Making a P4 feel like a good ol 20Mhz Intel!
Its GREAT!!!

GUH!!! Why do you have FAT partitions in 2007? There is a new craze sweeping the IT world, it's called Information SECURITY. You may have heard of it (or then again...)

Some companies require software that has not been updated with newer operating systems. Its a pain in the ass and a security hole but remember business needs dictate your security policy and implementation. I had to ghost a Win311 machine the other day that while essential to business has literally been running for longer than I've had an IT career

plettner

Plantwiz wrote:

Trend Micro.

We use it too.

Symantec Antivirus got the boot form our department. It was expensive and just didn't find viruses. Load the Trend office Scan Client and bang, viruses are detected in seconds.

Symantec have indeed gone backward for years. I swore off their products in 2004.

TechJunky

We use Nod32 Enterprise edition. I am very happy with their product and customer service.