~~Alan~~ said:
I'm probably going to start some heated discussions (I may want to talk
about politics instead) but I'm interested to read about anyone's
experiences with enterprise (not stand-alone please) anti-virus solutions
from Norton, Sophos, Mcaffee, etc.
Thanks,
~alan
From the IT dept's point of view, such apps permit centralized control,
which at least means that IT can ensure that users are up-to-date both
with respect to virus definitions and application revisions. McAfee, and
I believe Symantec as well, also can be installed so that the client has
no access to the "control panel," and thus can't reconfigure how the a/v
behaves. This can be a problem if the client wants to temporarily
disable a/v scanning in order, for example, to install some app or
update. But then again, IT probably doesn't want clients installing
their own apps.
As far as resource hogging, Symantec a/v Corp Ed. may be a little better
than consumer Norton a/v, but its startup scan can be a real PITA.
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