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MICROSOFT - What antivirus do they use internally?

SagaLore

SagaLore

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I have spent the last 6 months evaluating several antivirus package for our firm to replace Mcafee. We have looked at Sophos, Trend Micro, and Command Software. Now my manager made the last minute decision to add Computer Associates InoculateIT to the testing, just because a Microsoft rep told him that they had it on their systems.

"What's good enough for MS should be good enoguh for us". So I've wasted 6 months of my life doing this evaluation "to make sure we pick the right one". All the scanning statistics I've seen show that Inoculate's ability to catch viruses is poor, and the Exchange scanner is almost non-functional. And to top it off, my Command Software rep guarentees me that Microsoft uses about 5 other antivirus solutions in their network, and the only reason they're using CA is because CA gives it to them free with 2 free onsite technicians.

I can't find any news or articles that tell me what Microsoft really uses for antivirus. Does anybody know??? 😕
 


<< I have the free version of Innoculate on a few boxes and it cleaned the virii pretty well. >>

I think they're killing the updates for that pretty soon.
 
DONT GET INNOCULATEIT!

We have that on our servers here. It's virus dat is updated every day(InnoculateIT only updates every week, it seems.) It failed to catch the magistr virus a few weeks ago and that sucker is on old one. We have since moved to McAfee.
 
I'm also interested in why you have to do a 6 month study to get rid of McAfee, whats wrong with it?
 
I know that sucks. Going to move those boxes over to AVG 🙂



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<< I have the free version of Innoculate on a few boxes and it cleaned the virii pretty well. >>

I think they're killing the updates for that
pretty soon. >>

 
Depends on the group.. I've seen a lot with both Norton, and Macfee... I just assumed it was up to the department heads..
 


<< DONT GET INNOCULATEIT!

We have that on our servers here. It's virus dat is updated every day(InnoculateIT only updates every week, it seems.) It failed to catch the magistr virus a few weeks ago and that sucker is on old one. We have since moved to McAfee. >>



What company do you work for, and how many clients do you support?
 
Support for the free version of Inoculate IT is about to be discontinued in May. They say virus technology has gotten beyond what that program can handle. CA is offering a nice discount on their new (for pay) package. Inoculate IT has worked so well for me that I intend to buy the new package. Those folks really seem to know what they're doing. 🙂

My biggest complaint about McAfee is that everyone I know who uses it says it slows down their system. I have never used McAfee, but those who have used it and other software, such as Norton, confirm that McAfee is slower.
 


<< why are you replacing mcafee again? >>



Too many problems with it. We have some accounting software that just doesn't cooperate when scanned. Also, there was a point when all our systems got really sluggish and hard to use because of the delay, and after 3 weeks it turned out it was the newest Mcafee engine, and they didn't warn any of their customers to revert to previous engine. Our only option was to disable Mcafee for a month when they said the fix would be available in a week.
 


<< I'm also interested in why you have to do a 6 month study to get rid of McAfee, whats wrong with it? >>



We had already decided we were going to replace it, but we were waiting for our license contract to run out. We used the remaining time to test other products.
 
we use norton antivirus corporate edition. Its much more powerful than Mcafee version and allows an easy way of enterprise deployment. You can deploy from one computer on the network for windows systems. Also you can initate enterprise wide antivirus sweep even if its disabled on client computers.

I love NAVCE.. its cheap, effective and good. It cost use 1040 dollars for a 50 user licence for a year or so... not a bad price.
 


<< Depends on the group.. I've seen a lot with both Norton, and Macfee... I just assumed it was up to the department heads.. >>



its not, its up to the corporate IT Group called ITG, they make the call.
 


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<< DONT GET INNOCULATEIT!

We have that on our servers here. It's virus dat is updated every day(InnoculateIT only updates every week, it seems.) It failed to catch the magistr virus a few weeks ago and that sucker is on old one. We have since moved to McAfee. >>



What company do you work for, and how many clients do you support? >>



I'd rather not give out the name, but we have 200 workstations. 9 servers had InnoculateIT, all using Advanced Version 4.5.

 


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<< DONT GET INNOCULATEIT!

We have that on our servers here. It's virus dat is updated every day(InnoculateIT only updates every week, it seems.) It failed to catch the magistr virus a few weeks ago and that sucker is on old one. We have since moved to McAfee. >>



What company do you work for, and how many clients do you support? >>



I'd rather not give out the name, but we have 200 workstations. 9 servers had InnoculateIT, all using Advanced Version 4.5. >>



Ah, that might be why it wasn't good at catching Magistr. The version we're evaluating now is eTrust 6.0.
 
By the way

How long has Computer Associates been developing antivirus products?

How long has Command Software been developing antivirus products?
 


<< Support for the free version of Inoculate IT is about to be discontinued in May. They say virus technology has gotten beyond what that program can handle. CA is offering a nice discount on their new (for pay) package. Inoculate IT has worked so well for me that I intend to buy the new package. Those folks really seem to know what they're doing. 🙂 >>



I've been using their new e-trust Anti-Virus since they released it (got the $5.95 former InnoculateIT user deal), and it works great. It's basically just InnoculateIT with a different name, same exact interface. Anyone know if they are working on something different?
 
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