I have found it to be a wonderful multi-platform A/V solution with excellent
centralized management (for rollout, reporting, and remediation). When we
rolled it out, I asked for the tool to uninstall the previous A/V software
and was given clear, simple instructions and a few files to copy into the
central installation directory. The initial rollout worked beautifully.
I will echo the comments about load -- the only time the client software
puts any load on the computer is during the update. Other than that, it
seems to have less impact on the machine than other A/V software I have
used.
One other comment -- I have found on my MacBook that the on-access scanner
seems to interfere with some of Apple's digital editing tools (iMovie & iDVD
in particular). I have gotten in the habit of turning off on-access
scanning before doing serious work in either of those applications. I don't
know if you'll have the same problem with Windows Movie Maker.
One final note: I just read today in Information Week that GE has recently
replace over 350,000 seats of Symantec with Sophos.
Christopher
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Christopher Butler
Academic Technology Director
St. John's Preparatory School
Danvers, MA
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On 12/19/07 4:05 PM, "Demetri Orlando" <demetrio@battlegroundacademy.org>
wrote:
> Friends,
> We're getting ready to switch 600 Windows clients from Computer
> Associate's eTrust to Sophos for our enterprise
> anti-virus/anti-spyware/application control solution. If anyone has had
> any negative experiences with this product or migration I'd appreciate
> knowing of it. From our research, demo, and client list, it seems a good
> solution. The ISED archives show that Jason, Heather, and Roger gave it
> a good report in November (with the one caveat about scripting the
> removal of the old a/v software).
> Thanks,
> Demetri
>
> ps. Thanks Arvind, Alex, Fred for the http://edtechtalk.com discussion
> about the ning today. http://isenet.ning.com is getting close to the 500
> mark :)
>
> Demetri Orlando
> Battle Ground Academy
> Franklin, TN
> demetrio@battlegroundacademy.org
>
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