[aklug] Re: Offtopic: speaking of Antivirus

Lee wrote, on 10/22/2010 11:41 AM:
> Anyone heard of or used something called VIPRE for their AV/AM ?
>
> http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/
>
> A number of our vendors/partners are switching over to this. Since switching large
> organizations is not easy or fun, if they are deciding to change, I'm thinking this is
> at least worth looking at. Of course, large organizations are also more prone to
> sales-whiz.

A little late, but I am personally not a fan. Lots of false positives
for big-name stuff that they should know better about:

http://supportforums.sunbeltsoftware.com/messageview.aspx?catid=218&threadid=3906

(search for 'royce')

... out of the box lack of awareness of admin/non-admin rights on some
Windows platforms, and quite slow on realtime scanning, in my opinion.
Also, its single process regularly takes up 300M on my XP machine at
work.

My impression was that they just weren't ready for the enterprise.

Royce
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Received on Tue Oct 26 15:06:57 2010