Enterprise Antivirus solutions

sratakhin

Hello,

I'm looking for recommendations for an enterprise antivirus solution. We currently use McAfee ePO and our contract is expiring next year, and we would like to replace it with something else.

What programs do you use and what do you like about them?

I'm testing Trend Micro Office Scan & Deep Security, and Kaspersky Security Center. Have mixed feelings about both...

FloOz

Take a look at Sophos. That is what we use.

wes allen

Since all A/V pretty much sucks, more or less, just get whatever has the smallest client footprint. If you are a MS shop, you might look at Microsoft System Center 2012 | Endpoint Protection - I use and recomend security essentials for all my friends, family, and small companies I work with. I have no experience with the enterprise version though.

dbrink

We run Microsoft Forefront here.

tbgree00

We use Kaspersky here. I've found it doesn't have a big footprint on our machines and I love the VMware plugin piece so we don't need to use agents on our servers. It's nice that we can control our mobile, VM, and workstations in the same dashboard.

NotHackingYou

Used Vipre, it had a great deployment console.

sratakhin

tbgree00 wrote: »

We use Kaspersky here. I've found it doesn't have a big footprint on our machines and I love the VMware plugin piece so we don't need to use agents on our servers. It's nice that we can control our mobile, VM, and workstations in the same dashboard.

Hm... That's not what I found during the test. Sometimes, Kaspersky processes consume almost 350 MB of RAM and using 100% of CPU. I guess I'm doing something wrong...

meowcat

We used McAfee at my job until it sent out a bad dat that wiped out every one of our machines (fortunately fixable but had to hand visit everyone once McAfee had a solution). We ended up going with Sophos. It had a small footprint and seemed to do a much better job with spyware. We've been using it for a few years now and are very happy. We did look at Trend Micro (didn't think it did a good job) and Kaspersky (thought it had a large footprint).

sratakhin

Thank you everyone for your input. I'll be testing Kaspersky for the next few weeks and then try TrendMicro and Sophos.

JaneDoe

Try avira, it has a tiny footprint and provides great protection.