I have AVG/Symantec/Mcafee/Spybot Installed. I’m Protected, Right?
Recently, I had an alarm installed at my house. When the ADT fellow showed me the brochure, there were three different levels I could choose from: not expensive, expensive and OH MY G-D!
The differences between the systems were:
- Level 1 – door sensors
- Level 2 – door sensors and window sensors
- Level 3 – door sensors, window sensors, cameras and biometric fingerprint scanners
Price is not a factor when choosing Virus and Malware Protection
Unlike alarm systems for your house, most antivirus software are priced similarly. With price being a non-factor, the quality of the software becomes the most important part of the decision.
We look for the following qualities (in order of importance):
- Ability to catch and prevent infection
- Ability to clean up existing infections
- Low impact to system performance
- Centralized management console
- Easy – set it up and then forget about it
AVG and Symantec Fail Miserably
About a year ago, we lost respect for the Symantec solution. [Note: we are Symantec partners and have been for many years.] Their antivirus software used to be the best thing out there. Not so much any more. Shortly after pitching Symantec aside we began recommending AVG, because it was free and did a better job than Symantec.
About six months ago, we standardized on Sunbelt VIPRE Enterprise. WOW. Let me tell you how awesome it is to have a solution you really believe in and proves itself every day.[Note: we do make money selling VIPRE. However, we could make money selling any of the solutions out in the market.]
Doctors Office Installs VIPRE and finds 12 Infections AVG did not
Just yesterday I spent the day uninstalling AVG and Symantec at a doctors office and replacing it with VIPRE. Within an hour of the first scan being completed, VIPRE had detected and removed 12 different infections.
Makes you wonder….Which system did you choose and was it the right choice?
I remember the day when I could say that I had never seen a virus in the wild.
Then, back in the old sneaker net days, we had a computer in the circulation that had a 360 floppy drive and a 720K floppy drive that was used for moving data from one size drive to the other.
It got a dose of the Jerusalem Virus and quickly spread it all over the building.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_%28computer_virus%29
It wasn’t hard to knock out, but that was a dose of what was to come.