Security Basics: RE: Different AV Products

["Andy Cuff (Talisker)" <SecurityLists () securitywizardry com>]

Hi John,
I recently replied to this thread and warned about the risk in changing AV,
I avoided marketing our site.  However, in light of you testing so many
products I wonder if you'd take the time to rate and review the products you
tested on our website here
http://www.networkintrusion.co.uk/index.php/component/mtree/Content-Protecti
on/Anti%252DVirus.html

Thereby sharing your thoughts with the rest of the community

Cheers!

Andy Cuff
Computer Network Defence Ltd
www.networkintrusion.co.uk


> -----Original Message-----
> From: listbounce () securityfocus com 
> [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On Behalf Of John Bond
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 9:01 PM
> To: pthroumoulos () rochester rr com; security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: Fwd: Different AV Prouducts
>
> recently we did an audit of many different virus scanners and 
> for us kersperskey came out top (above nod32, symantic, 
> mcafee, avg and a few others i cant remeber) our criteria 
> included, multi OS support (solaris (SPARC), redhat and 
> windows), centrel management and ease of management; however 
> since it has been rolled out we have had a lot of problems.  
> lots of updates have needed reboots.  scanns have created 
> dumps which wrote of Gb's of data (efectivly DOSing the 
> server), network performace hits and as for my desktop well i 
> had to disable it.  its now got to the stage where the first 
> port of blame is the virus scanner not networks and thats 
> saying something.  not that i have any thing against 
> kerspersky on paper it seemed like the best one and we have 
> now started to iron out the bugs to get it working as i would 
> hope.  but if i had a second chance i would go for nod32.