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Why Sophos - why not ...

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Back from a meeting with to guys from a ... well, the usual partner, reseller, consultant, solver company. Colleague security contracted them at some show. The usual twins: one sales, one techie-turned-consultant. Initially it was about Kaspersky but they have also McAfee in their portfolio.

If I were a noob I'd now be uninstalling Sophos instead of posting here. Both products are superior - Kaspersky performs much better because of it's nifty don't-scan-twice-when-nothing-has-changed technology and McAfee's ePO is the unrivalled management solution.

Both didn't really like Sophos (but they were careful to not to step on my toes - must've sensed that I'm somewhat in favour of Sophos) - the techie cause he thinks that while Sophos' AV-scanning is ok they are not much better at managing than Kaspersky (which is superior in detection technology) and the sales said that Sophos has been/is regularly undercutting their partner's offerings at the last moment. Can't say much about both claims. Fact is that while a few years ago higher education institutions here have flocked to Sophos some have (re-)turned to McAfee (I don't attend meetings and conferences so I can't confirm this).

The only technical item that stuck is that allegedly both competitors offer the option to exempt files accessed by certain processes (eg backup) from scanning.

All in all I missed a little bit "self-criticism". So if you considered one or the other competitor - why did you not choose him (or why did you, since this is an open forum)? They arguments I've heard are compelling ...

Christian

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    If you have to deal with Macs as well then that precludes Kaspersky. Norton, McAfee, CA and Sophos is about your lot.

    I have never felt comfortable with McAfee (my brother actually works for them so I should really be more supportive) due to some bad experiences with uninstalls and corrupted installations, also there was a recent update that screwed some PCs as well. We gave it a fair crack when evaluating between the above 4 but it seemed very cumbersome on the management side, I think you have to be willing to go the whole nine yards for all your AV/Spam/Encryption etc accross all you platforms and entry points or it just doesn't work. If you are taking a more layered approach than you may wish to pick a more focused and lightweight product.

    As for scan testing take a look at Virus Bulletin site, particularly the RAP testing graph.

    Sophos can be slow to provide full support for new platforms, I am still waiting on a console that will run on Windows 7.

    Best bet is to actually do some testing and see which one fits, Sophos came out top for us overall though it is not the perfect solution, it does actually work which is more than I can say for CA's offering.

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    If you have to deal with Macs as well then that precludes Kaspersky. Norton, McAfee, CA and Sophos is about your lot.

    I have never felt comfortable with McAfee (my brother actually works for them so I should really be more supportive) due to some bad experiences with uninstalls and corrupted installations, also there was a recent update that screwed some PCs as well. We gave it a fair crack when evaluating between the above 4 but it seemed very cumbersome on the management side, I think you have to be willing to go the whole nine yards for all your AV/Spam/Encryption etc accross all you platforms and entry points or it just doesn't work. If you are taking a more layered approach than you may wish to pick a more focused and lightweight product.

    As for scan testing take a look at Virus Bulletin site, particularly the RAP testing graph.

    Sophos can be slow to provide full support for new platforms, I am still waiting on a console that will run on Windows 7.

    Best bet is to actually do some testing and see which one fits, Sophos came out top for us overall though it is not the perfect solution, it does actually work which is more than I can say for CA's offering.

    :3404
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