AV for 2008R2. KAV not playing ball.

Lanz · 7 Sep 2009 at 10:58

After installing a couple of 2008R2 servers for using the new Hyper-V, we find out that Kaspersky Server doesnt yet support R2. This leaves us somewhat in a hole. Any recommendations for for a server AV product we can use in the meantime whilst KAV pull their fingers out.?

cheers

iaind · 7 Sep 2009 at 11:07

Probably unhelpful, but you should really check your existing software is compatible before installing a new OS...

Lanz · 7 Sep 2009 at 11:10

We were told it would.

But we had a KAV engineer here for a day, and he failed to get it working, then reported back to us this morning that it wont work.

iaind · 7 Sep 2009 at 11:14

This implies the next release will work (end of the month) if you can wait

http://forum.kaspersky.com/index.php?showtopic=131286&pid=1083703&st=0&#entry1083703

Lanz · 7 Sep 2009 at 11:15

Yup, that's what we also heard, but apparently it wont work.

Lanz · 7 Sep 2009 at 11:20

Its very shody. The engineer admitted that the Enterprise KAV is miles behind the consumer version.

We jumped ship from Sophos to KAV last year on a whim, the person who made that decision should be slapped.

iaind · 7 Sep 2009 at 11:22

I've always been really impressed by KAV, I'd much rather have a mature stable product than one that's constantly changing.

This is what happens when you adopt an os the moment it's released in a production environment

Lanz · 7 Sep 2009 at 11:29

We need Hyper-V R2, it does everything we want and costs virtually nothing. Yes we are rushing in, but we've been testing it for ages with the Beta/RC so it's not that new to us.

Yamahahahahaha · 7 Sep 2009 at 11:54

Lanz said:
Its very shody. The engineer admitted that the Enterprise KAV is miles behind the consumer version.

We jumped ship from Sophos to KAV last year on a whim, the person who made that decision should be slapped.

Detection and cleanup rates with our Sophos AV are ****ing abysmal. All sorts of extra work doing stuff by hand to get it fixed up.

The only reason we're with Sophos is because they gave us a very good deal on the AV + Puremessage, which was considerably less than individual appliances and other subscriptions.

Lanz · 7 Sep 2009 at 12:07

Yup, we had the same issues with Sophos, so we changed to KAV, but we see the same problems. They are probably all as good/bad as each other. You certainly cant rely on them nowadays.

Just reading that Sophos also dont have an R2 product available, as they say its not released until Oct