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Old 04-22-2010, 12:07 PM   #23
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Originally Posted by Rathji View Post
I am going to bet the IT department disagrees with you. We use Symantec Endpoint Protection and over the last week I have cleaned 4 machines manually, the 5th is so infected that I will just wipe it tomorrow.

The best was the instructions for removing one on the Symantec site was disable system restore and ... run a Symantec scan...of course had Symantec been able to find and clean it, there wouldn't have been a problem in the first place.
We've used SEP to somewhat good results. We have some computers with DeepFreeze and their was a conflict between SEP and DeepFreeze that caused general slowness on the PCs, but DeepFreeze provided a patch to fix it. So, overall we're pleased with SEP.

However I do worry that Symantec will turn their product into more of a bloated piece of software like they've done with Norton. At one point Norton was good. I've been anti-McAfee since 1999. AVG is good for home users, and so is Avast (which I now use).

I've heard good things about Kapersky and am going to seriously investigate switching to it when our licensing for Symantec needs to be renewed.
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