From: "Jim Watt" <jimwatt@aol.no_way>
|
| Possibly, but the small business's here tend to buy the retail
| product, or the machines come with it preloaded; particularly
| in the case of Norton who won't supply an English language version
| because they have decided we are part of Spain although we think
| differently.
|
| AVG is currently my product of choice and deleted Norton from
| the new sony laptop bought recently.
|
| I turned down the offer on McAfee shares when they had their
| IPO as it looked likely that MS would bundle a product, so
| perhaps am not infallible :)
|
AVG isn't nearly as good as Avira AntiVir.
For example, Avira had signatures for the VMFill-Exploit one week earlier than AVG.
The differences between the McAfee retail and corp/enterprise AV version are like night and
day. Except for using the same Signatures and Engine, the Kernels are completely different.
If their implementation of the Engine is different in that the Enterprise version will
provide the Command Line Scanner while the retail only uses a GUI. The Retail version
forces you to register the product and ties the scanner tightly to Internet Explorer and
doesn't use NT Services to load. The Enterprise versions has NO dependencies on IE, does
not require registration and uses NT services to load. It has been a problem where the
retail version neds an administrative account to download and install signatures. Because
the Enterprise version uses a NT Service one can easily apply an administrative account to
perform the update. There are miore differences but those are the most natable. Those
differences noted in the retail version are much of the cause of problems people "bitch"
about.
--
Dave
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