RE: What about Kaspersky AV?

["Ackley, Alex" <aackley () epmgpc com>]

We're currently running the latest Symantec Enterprise product and there
a lot of good things about it.  I mean a lot.  It's a large leap in
usability, functionality and performance over the older versions.

Now the problem: unlike my previous experiences with Symantec which
meant a large foot print that slowed machines down but was pretty much
rock stable.  This new one has had a lot of major bugs and lots of
issues.  Symantec is working hard on fixing them.  But until that is
done, I couldn't recommend them for anyone.

Once these bugs are fixed though, I'd put it up against any of the other
products out there.  

Alexander J. Ackley, CISSP
Systems Administrator
EPMG, PC

-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Tim Stevens
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 7:00 PM
To: Kartik; parveenvashishtha () yahoo com
Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: What about Kaspersky AV?

Hi folks,

I heartily agree with accolades for NOD32 and Kaspersky but, as I
recall, Symantec has had some issues in the past few months that
seriously impacted a California company and the customers to whom they
provide service. This went on for a few days and support was said to be
very slow.  I would consider researching tech news going back to about
November to learn more.

tim
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Kaspersky is one of the best antivirus solutions, if i'm not wrong it
was founded by some russian hacker group initially.

Well, i agree with Praveen vashishtha that for 10000+ user company,
its the Symantec that you should go for.

We have lots of big shot customers (PCI and HIPPA compliant) who run
Symantec in their environment.

Thanks,
Kartik