Which AV software the best?

[Mitchell]

My corporate license for NAI (aka McAfee) is expiring. I have gotten competitive quotes from NAI, Norton, and CA. All quoutes are within $150 of each other, so not enough difference to make a determination on that basis. I am NOT a fan of CA. I worked for EDS when Cheyenne was bought by Computer Associates (CA), and EDS "absorbed" CA. So I worked for the company that owned the company that made the software, and the software (InnoculatIT) was SOOO BADDD, EDS sent a GLOBAL internal memo telling all divisions to remove InnoculaIT! Since then I have heard that they are getting better.

I have no knowledge or experience with Symantec's. How is it to work with on a enterprise scale?

The old version of NAI will not run on W2K, and will crash WinME consistently (unless you turn off "Console"). NAI has farmed out their sales to FutureCom, so now you can't even get an honest quote!

I need an enterprise software, managable from one administrative point, command line driven, silent upgrade and update ability, from a company that will keep me posted on new alerts.

Has anyone heard of Panda? What about any other?

Your help is appreciated.

Mitch



[This message has been edited by Mitchell (edited 05-03-2001).]

[sharder8]

While I haven't used Panda, I know a couple companies that do and they've had nothing but praise about it.

Personally, I've always liked NAV, but finally removed it from my system because it was a resource hog and Trend's PC-cillin was catching everything and stuff that NAV wasn't. It was also easier on the resources. Trend products are also being recommended through joint marketing by several other software companies that are highly respected. You can read more about Trend at www.trend.com (http://www.trend.com)

Harder

[Mitchell]

Thanks sharder. I'll look into Trend. I called Panda and spoke with their tech staff for awhile and it sounds as though they have a pretty descent product too. I am a little leary of jumping into a product that I havent tested though...

Do you know of any others?