Re: [Fed-Talk] SAV 11 for Mac??
Re: [Fed-Talk] SAV 11 for Mac??
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] SAV 11 for Mac??
- From: "Dan O'Donnell" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:32:15 -0700
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] SAV 11 for Mac??
Title: Re: [Fed-Talk] SAV 11 for Mac??
I can’t address SAV 11, but I can add to the list of deficiencies of SAV 10.
- Uninstallation is not always successful using the tool you have to implore the company to provide.
- And when the uninstall tool does not work they won’t help, even if you have a support contract.
- We tried to figure out what the installer puts where (a task in itself), but even when we tried to remove all the parts we found were installed, some SAV parts still remained in the test system and complained that not everything was there – and we couldn’t install McAfee.
- Symantec was particularly obstructionist, and simply would not help us a) remove the thing or b) tell us why their uninstall tool failed.
And as you point out, dat push/pull simply doesn’t work if the client machine is not on a network that can phone home to Symantec. And central management of the “corporate edition” seems to be nonexistent as well.
Those are not the reasons we’ve dropped SAV for McAfee VirusScan, but they contributed. VS requires much much less care than SAV, and has central management. Additionally, McAfee has a linux client. (!)
I’ll repeat that I don’t know about SAV 11, but unless it has major feature additions and enhancements, it will probably be a step backwards.
On 9/26/08 10:13 AM, "Nichols, Jared" <email@hidden> wrote:
Hi-
There’s rumblings here that we’re going to be ditching McAfee for Virus and Firewall/Application/IPS filtering on desktops for a long list of reasons. I’m privy to them, it’s just far to long to explain it all... At any rate, they’re very good points.
My question is this: has anyone used Symantec (Norton) AV 11? Last I administered SAV 10 corporate edition for Mac, it was really just the regular home user edition with a corporate sticker on it instead. There was a way to cobble together a central Live Update server, but it had to be on a Mac and was completely separate from the Windows Live Update server we ran. Apparently (at least with version 10) the DAT files weren’t the same format for Windows and Mac. Why they’d do this, I have no idea... McAfee VirusScan actually does a fairly good job on the Mac and it will integrate just fine to ePolicy Orchestrator and use the same DATs as Windows, complete with centralized pushing... It’s the one thing on the Mac here that’s done well.
I’m worried about taking a step backwards...
Thanks
j
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