Best Corporate AV solution

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We currently use Symantec end point 11.0 and haven't had any real issue with it, but or renewal is coming up, so we'd like to see what else is recommended. We were thing MCafee, but then we heard about the false positive situation a few months ago, and the last thing we need is to go through something like that. Which AV solution do you use at your firm, and what do you recommend?
 
Latest endpoint isn't actually that bad but I didn't have a choice as it was pre-existing when I joined my company.

I would stick with nod32 or sophos personally.
 
Tough question as different people will have good/bad experiences with most products.

I've used corporate versions of Mcafee and nod32.

Mcafee I've never really had a problem with as much as everyone slates them. Used in 2 companies now, one was approx 600 clients, the other over 2000.

Nod32 is only being used on a very small amount of machines but again seems to be ok, although the management console looks as though it was designed 10 years ago :p
 
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McAfee with Epolicy Orchestrator 4.5 is good. Im looking after 2000+ machines with it.

The MS products are also worth looking at now.
 
Sophos Endpoint 9.5, with the latest 4.5 Management Console. Not that much different from 9.0 / 4.0. But the best AD intergrated management console there is. Migrated from Symantec 6 months ago, and have not looked back, so much easier to manage and deploy.
 
Using Trend, Sophos and McAffe. Out of them Trend is awful, Sophos is good and McAffe hasn't let anything through, although I don't have much dealings with that one. I'd probably pick Sophos for a new deployment

- Pea0n
 
I've only really used Sophos but was impressed with how seemless the install was and how well it used AD to roll itself out/continued management.
 
We use NOD32 with all our clients. They're not exactly enterprise level, but deployment is really easy. I do agree that the Admin console was designed by a complete spastic though.
 
SiriusB said:
We use NOD32 with all our clients. They're not exactly enterprise level, but deployment is really easy. I do agree that the Admin console was designed by a complete spastic though.
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Was on a conference call with ESET a while ago and I think even they were a little embarressed as to how dated it looked :p Didn't help that my boss decided to bring it up in conversation.
 
We use McAfee at work. ePO 4.5 managing around 300 servers and ~8000 pc's.

Not really had any issues apart from them messing up the update a few months back.
 
Ev0 said:
Was on a conference call with ESET a while ago and I think even they were a little embarressed as to how dated it looked :p Didn't help that my boss decided to bring it up in conversation.
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I remember the first time I ever had to use it. I thought it was a bad joke.

"Could you update all their AV clients with some new settings..."
"Sure, no problem"
[loads up Admin console]
"...crap"


:p
 
Another vote for sophos here, so so simple and straight forward, apart from blocking the occasional thing it doesn't need to it's always done its job well
 
Use Sophos here, just upgraded our AV server to 2008R2 with the latest 4.5 Console and 9.5 Endpoints. Always worked well pushing the endpoint out. Their tech support has always been helpful when contacting them.
 
Another Sophos user here with no real complaints. Just moving over to Endpoint 9.5 and EC 4.5, seems to be going fine.

Just does its job really. :)
 
Cheers for the suggestions guys.

Sophos endpoint seems a bit overkill for our needs from what i've read on their site, as we already have many of the solutions in place that their product include. I've done some reading, and their 'Sophos Anti-Virus SBE 4' seems to fit the bill. Anyone had experience with this?
 
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