Trend and Sophos Enterprise Anti Virus

[ESM]

Has anyone used Trend OfficeScan 7.0 and Sophos 6.0 (or the previous
version) ? I'm looking for comparison data as I am looking at both of these
products for a new enterprise A/V deployment.

 

[Frankster]

Has anyone used Trend OfficeScan 7.0 and Sophos 6.0 (or the previous
version) ? I'm looking for comparison data as I am looking at both of
these products for a new enterprise A/V deployment.

Can't let this go by without at least voicing my support for Trend
Officescan. Great management console and virtually "load it and forget it"
hands off maintenance.

Sorry, never used Sophos.

-Frank

 

[ESM]

What's your opinion of the built in anti-spyware and firewall? Sophos is
pushing hard on me about their anti-spyware beating out Trend and everyone
else out there (except for Counter Spy Enterprise which was not included in
the 10 product test).

Trend also does not have a dedicated desktop firewall like Sophos (and
everyone else) does. I'm not sure if this is good or bad.

Both of these features have a lot to do with the purchase as much as
anti-virus does.

 

[Frankster]

Well, I gotta tell ya... I don't believe in "personal" firewalls behind a
good network firewall. Also, I'm not big on the "spyware" real time
scanning. So... I don't use either in the Trend product. However, not sure
what you mean about Trend not having a "dedicated" desktop firewall. It
does.

My biggest issue with spyware stuff is that as often as not it is a virus
anyway. There is *much* grayed lines between spyware/virus categories
amongst the different vendors. One vendor will classify something as a
virus, the other classifies it as "only" spyware. Anyway, I prefer dealing
with spyware manually.

If you haven't downloaded the Trend Officescan product eval to try it out,
you should.

-Frank