Re: Symantec Antivirus Corporate vs. Norton Anti-Virus

From: Johnny Canuck (Johnny_Canuck1_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/04/04 

Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 05:52:13 GMT

Helpful info with some nice statistics for the MacAfee vs. Norton stuff
thanks.

Any idea on what is different between symantec anti virus and norton
anti-virus though?

Thanks

JC

"Leythos" <void@nowhere.org> wrote in message
news:MPG.1bca70775303132e9897ab@news-server.columbus.rr.com...
> 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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