Any recommendations folks?
- I've been in the business my whole life. Looking for middle price and want to stay away from bloatware. More enterprise editions get into outlook plugins and sharepoint scanning, but not really needed here. These are small/med size businesses. Some have a server (2008 / 2012) but they usually shy away from server side AV hosting due to the price.
- Currently using F-Prot. Not bad, but ending July 2021. What ISPs use on their online-AV they sell customers and always worked great. Cheap too, was $168CDN for 30 licenses (1 Year), compatible with any client.
- Symantec / SEP / - Expensive ($800+ /yr) but works great. Usually the first recommendation but that price turns small business owners off each time. Yes, Oh the irony. & now owned by Broadcom. Judging by their migration progress it's not looking good.
https://community.broadcom.com/syman...b=digestviewer
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/exter...yId=TECH235706
- Bit Defender - LOL. OK, I put this 2nd as I just wanted to warn others. This AV is a piece of garbage and does not work. Not for good AV, not for "finding a laptop". Had this once, spent 2 months tracking a laptop with their Indian support team, which showed the laptop in the middle of the highway. They had no answers when it was found in an office drawer. Garbage product.
- Kaspersky - Not bad. Never used it full time.
- AVG - dam no. Use to be great, but now it's so bloated. Selling users on 3rd party VPN, fibbing to make sales, pop-ups for pop-ups.
- ESET (https://www.eset.com/ca/) - I've heard good things. I may try these folks. But to run from a server with 15 licenses it's $1100 a year. / $150 for standalone 10 devices per yr.
- McAfee - Always stayed away from these guys as through the decades they get flagged as spam / spoofing / etc. They use 3rd party installers, which install other crap, bloatware, etc.
- Malwarebytes - #1 in the business IMO. But not sure if I can trust it as an AV as well.
- Avast / Sophos / Avira / etc - no opinion. Never tried them.
- I've been in the business my whole life. Looking for middle price and want to stay away from bloatware. More enterprise editions get into outlook plugins and sharepoint scanning, but not really needed here. These are small/med size businesses. Some have a server (2008 / 2012) but they usually shy away from server side AV hosting due to the price.
- Currently using F-Prot. Not bad, but ending July 2021. What ISPs use on their online-AV they sell customers and always worked great. Cheap too, was $168CDN for 30 licenses (1 Year), compatible with any client.
- Symantec / SEP / - Expensive ($800+ /yr) but works great. Usually the first recommendation but that price turns small business owners off each time. Yes, Oh the irony. & now owned by Broadcom. Judging by their migration progress it's not looking good.
https://community.broadcom.com/syman...b=digestviewer
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/exter...yId=TECH235706
- Bit Defender - LOL. OK, I put this 2nd as I just wanted to warn others. This AV is a piece of garbage and does not work. Not for good AV, not for "finding a laptop". Had this once, spent 2 months tracking a laptop with their Indian support team, which showed the laptop in the middle of the highway. They had no answers when it was found in an office drawer. Garbage product.
- Kaspersky - Not bad. Never used it full time.
- AVG - dam no. Use to be great, but now it's so bloated. Selling users on 3rd party VPN, fibbing to make sales, pop-ups for pop-ups.
- ESET (https://www.eset.com/ca/) - I've heard good things. I may try these folks. But to run from a server with 15 licenses it's $1100 a year. / $150 for standalone 10 devices per yr.
- McAfee - Always stayed away from these guys as through the decades they get flagged as spam / spoofing / etc. They use 3rd party installers, which install other crap, bloatware, etc.
- Malwarebytes - #1 in the business IMO. But not sure if I can trust it as an AV as well.
- Avast / Sophos / Avira / etc - no opinion. Never tried them.
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