Opinions on Trend Micro vs. McAfee products, please.

[afs_solutions]

Hi All,

I suppose that I'm looking to gather some feedback on the two vendors'
product lines, as I'm beginning to evaluate alternate a/v software for
a non-profit firm and on a volunteer basis.

The office will be upgrading their network in a few months - right now
it's still an NT 4.0 SBS and Win98 environment, and they were using
Norton but due to service/re-ordering issues the organization wants to
switch vendors. So with that said, are there any major quality
differences between the Trend Micro and the McAfee product line that I
should be aware of? My goal is to ultimately have a server module push
any definition files/version updates down to the workstations upon
authentication. (Presumably this should be doable with either TM or
McAfee, right?) In addition, management will want the s/w (or
licences) to be portable to WinXP/2003 Server with limited costs.

I suppose that's it, with one slight exception... Is there a site
that one can go to obtain a "safe virus" to use to test the
platforms out? F.w.i.w: that portion of the test will be completed
with the computers on their own segment and with the internet
connection removed.

T.I.A.

Paul

 

[Ernie B.]

I suppose that's it, with one slight exception... Is there a site
that one can go to obtain a "safe virus" to use to test the
platforms out? F.w.i.w: that portion of the test will be completed
with the computers on their own segment and with the internet
connection removed.

T.I.A.

Paul

Download eicar.com from here:
<http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm>. Read the text beforehand
though.

 

[TimeTraveller]

Hi,

I can assist you with the Mcafee product range as I use and recommend that
daily (no, I dont work for them just been using the products for years)

Overall I am happy with the mcafee products, for the scenario you are
describing Mcafee AVD will be an appropriate package.

You will have
Groupshield - Exchange Email scanning
Virusscan - Workstation File Scanning (Also used on the server for flat
files)
And to tie it all together you will have:
Protection Pilot, this both rolls the product and updates to the clients as
well as giving you a central repository to see Virus detection and logs of
the network, as well as the current update level of all client PC's

You can set it to page/email you etc as well.

The licensing is transportal as you simply pay for 5/10 user boxes, its up
to you to police the usage of the product as the Mcafee product itself does
not do this.

You should be able to get a free 30 trial of the products as well -however
you will need to check on the Mcafee site for any further info - NAI.COM

TT

 

[Frankster]

Hi All,

I suppose that I'm looking to gather some feedback on the two vendors'
product lines, as I'm beginning to evaluate alternate a/v software for
a non-profit firm and on a volunteer basis.

The office will be upgrading their network in a few months - right now
it's still an NT 4.0 SBS and Win98 environment, and they were using
Norton but due to service/re-ordering issues the organization wants to
switch vendors. So with that said, are there any major quality
differences between the Trend Micro and the McAfee product line that I
should be aware of? My goal is to ultimately have a server module push
any definition files/version updates down to the workstations upon
authentication. (Presumably this should be doable with either TM or
McAfee, right?) In addition, management will want the s/w (or
licences) to be portable to WinXP/2003 Server with limited costs.

I suppose that's it, with one slight exception... Is there a site
that one can go to obtain a "safe virus" to use to test the
platforms out? F.w.i.w: that portion of the test will be completed
with the computers on their own segment and with the internet
connection removed.

T.I.A.

Paul

For your scenario, IMHO, the best possible product is Trend Micro
Officescan. Centrally managed and virtually hands-off after installation.

Search for "EICAR". That is the standard AV test SW.

-Frank