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Mcafee or Trend Micro?

hi

We should buy a new high-performance and good virus scanner for our company.

We'll setup 100, mostly WIN2008 R2 server, Exchange 2010 and about 500 Windows7 clients.

All server we would like to virtualized on ESX 4 and clients will use VMware View 4.

We should decide if Mcafee or Trend Micro.

What do you think or what experience?

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AntonVZhbankov
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We're using TrendMicro and I haven't noticed any performance problem. On other side Mcafee is well known for its behavior in VMs - a lot of reports in google. Maybe they've already fixed this, but still don't trust Mcafee.


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anonimous
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Are both of them VMware certified?

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golddiggie
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Check out what Kaspersky has to offer too... http://usa.kaspersky.com/products_services/business/

Reach out to them and explain your environment and what you want to do. See if you can get them to set you up with a decent set of eval licenses to test out on a large enough sampling to see how it's going to work before you invest...

I've been using the Kaspersky product on my personal systems for a few months now and have had far less issues than with any other AV product I've used in the past...

I would avoid McAfee's products above all others. Not only do they tend to bog down your systems, but they can be a total pain in the ass to remove.

Not sure if this matters to you, or not, but the Kaspersky product works across both Windows and Mac (client) platforms. They also support Linux and even Novell Netware servers (as well as Windows). Not to mention a wide range of mail server products and more...

If nothing else, worth a look...

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Dogonyat
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AFAIK, VMWare and TrendMicro have official partnership (see http://affinitypartner.trendmicro.com/affinity/alliance-partner/vmware.aspx).

Trend Micro is selling a very nice product called "Deep Security" (especially their DSVA - the Virtual Appliance), based on the vSafe/vShield API that provides agentless (well, agentless from trend, the vShield endpoint agent still has to be installed on each VM), providing firewalling, network packet analysis, I/O analysis and thus preventing most malware attacks real-time without the hassle of a heavy resource-crunching scanner in each VM (it's based on a loadable kernel module (LKM) bound to the ESX's kernel). For ESX 4.x, it's version 7.5, for ESXi 5 it's version 8.x.

AFAIK, McAfee has been bought by Intel.

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MartinAmaro
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I seen many clients using either and the only issues I've seen are due to a bad implementation and planning.

If your anti-virus administrator is working together with all applications' analyst to configure the exclusions, then I will go with the vendor that will give you the best deal.

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