Does anybody work for or run a small business MSP? {GFI Max Edition}

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Cryptic Edge: Aug 4, 2006; by Y Kant Ozma Post

NotWearingPants posted:

Vipre was one of the things that turned me off when I looked at Zenith Infotech. Why are they including a crappy anti-virus that nobody's ever heard of and that sounds like a car alarm manufacturer?

Packaged anti-virus in general turns me off from MSP software providers, just like the crappy managed McAfee helped turn me off from Sonicwall years ago. I want to be able to tell my clients I am providing them with what I think is the best anti-virus solution, not some add-on crap that's included in a package deal.

Vipre is actually a decent antivirus if you configure it properly. It may not be this super well known AV, but it is a hell of a lot better than mcafee, norton, AVG, and avast.

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Cryptic Edge: Aug 4, 2006; by Y Kant Ozma Post

mindphlux posted:

Yeah, I agree about the Vipre thing. It just sounds gay, and the client is pretty shady. Systray icon pops up and the window just says "Managed Antivirus!" I swear if I saw it on a computer where I didn't already know what it was, I'd think it was one of those fake AV products.

To be fair though, I have a repository of viruses, and I threw a couple of them at Vipre in a VM. It found all of them, but they were pretty blatant like trojans etc. No idea how it fares in the real world.

I'd kill for one of these that implemented MSE - I know GFI supports it (why am I starting to sound like a walking talking advert for gfi?) so I'll probably just end up scripting the MSE install out and using it as a policy for all desktops.

I'm an MSP with about 80 customer companies on Zenith. Vipre fairs well real world in my experience. GFI owns Vipre, so I wouldn't be shocked if that's the provided AV when you use it.

# ¿ Jun 28, 2011 03:23

Cryptic Edge: Aug 4, 2006; by Y Kant Ozma Post

NotWearingPants posted:

I could handle the name and it's lack of visibility, but as far as I know Vipre still refuses to be included in the av-comparatives.org tests which seems shady to me.

Well, that may change now that GFI owns it, as they were bought by them about 6 months or so ago. Still see the big rear end sunbelt (company who made Vipre, bought by GFI) building sign in downtown clearwater when I go there though.

# ¿ Jun 28, 2011 03:25

Cryptic Edge: Aug 4, 2006; by Y Kant Ozma Post

Giant became windows defender, forefront was purchased and became MSE/Forefront.

Also, the Sunbelt software building has finally changed the sign (a few months after the sale of sunbelt) it's now the GFI Software building. Such was a sad day when I saw that a few days ago. Either way, Vipre if you get the configuration right is a solid AV, with lots of options to customize the functionality and display of it for your environment.

# ¿ Jun 30, 2011 21:06

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