Comment Re:Just in time for us to migrate to Symantec (Score 2, Interesting) 239
As a former Symantec Corp customer, I'll disagree with that. The uninstaller for 8 was horrible, and the push install of 9 flat out didn't work for about half of my network (frequently caused by issues with 8). Nothing special about the network either, it just didn't work. In fact, about 1 in 20 network installs didn't work at all for some reason and I had to go install by hand. 9->10 seemed like it was going better until I had several systems start randomly screwing up and causing our EE and ME CAD applications to crash. I was getting sick of all the issues with security between the server and the clients as well as a multitude of other things.
I moved to NOD32, and couldn't be happier. Uses less than half the resources Symantec Corp did, and does a better job. I've had systems come out cleaner using a 3 month old set of definitions with NOD than Symantec Corp. I've got a central management interface that hasn't needed updated in over 6 months because there's been no security holes. Updates happen according to my policies by dropping them in the correct directory if I don't want it to auto-download, although I do just use auto-downloading. I can have one central server per location, then have the server upload it's logs to my central server a few times a day to keep traffic on my VPN links down. It works better and has caused fewer issues. Plain and simple, it's been a better product. Cheaper too!
I moved to NOD32, and couldn't be happier. Uses less than half the resources Symantec Corp did, and does a better job. I've had systems come out cleaner using a 3 month old set of definitions with NOD than Symantec Corp. I've got a central management interface that hasn't needed updated in over 6 months because there's been no security holes. Updates happen according to my policies by dropping them in the correct directory if I don't want it to auto-download, although I do just use auto-downloading. I can have one central server per location, then have the server upload it's logs to my central server a few times a day to keep traffic on my VPN links down. It works better and has caused fewer issues. Plain and simple, it's been a better product. Cheaper too!
