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Man I hate mcafee so much at this point.

I tried to convince the office manager to go with sophos or another solution but he did not want to.

So he went out and purchase the new mcafee end point advanced and wants me to setup the web filtering.

It just does not work, completely ineffective and their support is a joke.

It says on their website that it supports chrome and firefox and IE, but the chrome and firefox extensions do not work with the enterprise console. Mcafee just lie to sell products and do not offer working software.

The web blocking is also pretty hopeless. Just want to warn people against wasting money on mcafee and if anyone has managed to set up the site advisor enterprise with web reporting please let me know how you managed because the documentation as you would guess is useless and support do not even know their products.

If i have to spend any more time looking at that waste of time epo interface i might just find another job.
 
We're running Sophos Endpoint Security 9.7 on the whole domain here, with a dedicated Sophos proxy box at both of our physical sites. 'Was a bit quirky for the first few weeks as the proxy was fairly restrictive by default, but we've been pretty much hands off for the past months and it's been doing its job fine.

Never been a McAfee fan myself. :p
 
Yea we implemented sophos at another site and it worked. I was amazed, did not slow pcs down, the interface was great and easy to set up, it even started blocking malicious websites out of the box without any additional configuration or browser plugins. The only issue we have with that, which we are still lookin in to is why it won't install on some clients. But overall excellent.
 
curveball:

I like mcafee in an enterprise enviorment, one of the better vendors. EPO is great. However we're not using Site Advisor and don't have any plans to.
 
ruffneck said:
curveball:

I like mcafee in an enterprise enviorment, one of the better vendors. EPO is great. However we're not using Site Advisor and don't have any plans to.
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Same here.
EPO is great and we use it for endpoint management (VirusScan Enterprise 8.8, Device Control etc).
Our Web and Mail gateways are handled by dedicated IronPort appliances and they do a great job.
 
If its any consolation we have just had to put the Mcafee Endpoint Encryption onto our mobile devices ontop of the antivirus which has basically ground them to a hault making them pretty much useless.

Macfee is just a resource killer have told work to move to something else but its like banging your head against a wall :(
 
I was the network admin at my last place where I installed an epo4.5 environment. Back then I thought it was ok but then I didn't know any better.

Now I have changed jobs and done a ground up installation of SCCM using forefront endpoint 2010. It's just in another league.

Deploying clients actually works!! updates go out via wsus so they just work, the machines all report back to an easy to manage console, setting up profiles for exclusions, time of the day for scanning etc etc also just works.

What a difference!

p.s. The CPU also doesn't max out when doing real time or on demand scans unlike mccrappy where it eats cpus.
 
Jesus, I'd prefer McAfee over Sophos any day! Sophos is the biggest pile of garbage i've ever come across, both the SBE and enterprise version are a pile of crap, and their support is the biggest pile of **** i've ever had the misfortune of dealing with.
 
Oh man this is the worst ever. I hate mcafee even more now, i did not even think that was possible. Non of their software works correctly.

Now the client wants to move on to the Site advisor enterprise BETA 3.5 because the 3.0 does not support common browsers as advertised. But now this beta product is atrocious. I rolled it out and it blocked access to all websites, even google. hahah. So i had to disable it immediately. I just put my hands up and i feel like saying, should have listened to me before spending £2600 on bs software.

Now he wants me to contact support about these problems and raise faults in the beta, i am going to refuse this bs.
 
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Mcafee products just always seem to have something different going wrong everytime you want to use it. But apart from CPU hogging its a stable product...once you have pulled out your hair configuring it.
 
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