Re: Symantec Antivirus Corporate vs. Norton Anti-Virus
From: Leythos (void_at_nowhere.org)
Date: 10/04/04
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Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 01:16:36 GMT
In article <sL%7d.3671$j24.1156@clgrps12>, Johnny_Canuck1@hotmail.com
says...
> This question isn't for me since I will be running Kapersky anti-virus.
>
> I have a friend who is running Symantec AntiVirus Corporate (in Windows XP)
> at work and he was told that Norton Anti-Virus was a superior product.
>
> Any thoughts on what are the differences between the two, and which one is
> better? (i.e. as in more effective at finding viruses and keeping the system
> safe, less CPU overhead, etc.).
I run Symantec Corp Edition products on all of our Home and Business
systems, and all of our clients run Symantec AV products. While using
Symantec products we've not experienced any compromises by viruses, not
had any installation or performance problems, and feel reasonably virus
secure.
I have also used Norton 2000~2004 products on other systems, and we
avoid the Suites (NIS, NPF, etc..), we only use Norton Anti-Virus. It's
been the same, reliable, easy, secure, not one system compromised.
We just did a cleaning of a Sorority at a local university, 40 machines,
from all different places, mostly Windows XP, about 6 Windows 98, 1 Win
ME, and 1 MAC. The systems were running mostly McAfee (about 25 of
them), about 10 were running Norton 2002 & 2004, and several were
running CA AV software.
There were three machines that were clean - they had Norton AV 2004 on
them, were updated, and had XP SP1 and auto-update turned on. The MAC
was clean, but it had not been patched for the latest OS/X flaws.
The machines with McAfee products were the most infected - anywhere from
100 to more than 400 viruses found (we removed McAfee and used Free AVG
on those machines). Several were so bad that we wiped them. In almost
every case the McAfee product was installed by the computer vendor (Dell
being the most common) and not setup to pull updates - not one person
knew that they had to register to get updates, and it's not clear that
they were unprotected).
We cleaned the systems, installed free AVG Personal or, if a valid
subscription was present, we updated and re-ran the scans (double
checking with AVG also). We installed XP-SP2, disabled File/Printer
sharing and all seems to be running well.
If they could have afforded it I would have install Symantec Corporate
Small Business Edition 8.1 on every one of them and set the server to
control updates and functions.
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