Re: Anti-Virus Software

[salgak () speakeasy net]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin F. Knox [mailto:jknox () indexzero org]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 6, 2003 11:43 PM
> To: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: RE: Anit-Virus Software
>
> In the field, I have worked with McAfee, CA, Symantec (Norton) and Trend
> Micro.

I've also worked with SOPHOS.  Nice product, VERY lightweight as far as system impact goes, highly clueful tech 
support: at a now-2-years-dead dotcom I worked for, it identified one of our custom Java applets as viral.  With a code 
sample and a copy of the AV message, they had an updated definitions file to us in 4 hours. . . and pushed it out to 
the world as well.

My only gripe about them is their automatic definition update and remote installation software were a little kludgy, 
but that WAS 2 + years ago.  

Bottom line: SOPHOS is good people with a good product.  We preferred them to Symantec due to a recurring bug with 
Symantec Corporate Edition that kept crashing our main fileserver every few days. . .

> I'll have to agree re: CA. CA's software is klunky, and causes no end of
> frustration for all involved. If they'd focus on solid apps rather than
> solid licensing...they'd be in better shape.

The less said about CA, the better  (g)

> McAfee is okay, but I don't much like having to work with ePolicy
> Orchestrator

We have McAffee on the desktop here, it's alright, but nothing spectacular. . .

> Trend, I've only worked with on a desktop (consumer rather than corporate).
> it seems rather solid, and doesn't interfere much

Their VirusWall product for incoming email is a nice piece of software, and works quite well, from my experience. . .



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