Comments on: Symantec Endpoint is a Memory Pig

By: Phil Webb

Phil Webb — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:30:51 +0000

We ended up going with Panda AV. Its really easy to deploy and so far so good! We also moved our anti spam to Messagelabs, but not all that impressed considering the money involved!

By: Phil Webb

Phil Webb — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:29:05 +0000

I too use Symantec AV 10 running on a SBS 2003 machine and in total it uses up around 600MB of memory when you take the anti spam and the AV solution as a whole. I am now looking at software from other providers for the desktops and possibly message labs for the internet filtering and anti spam

By: More Endpoint Issues at FrankDzedzy.com

More Endpoint Issues at FrankDzedzy.com — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:39:04 +0000

[...] my previous observation of Endpoint’s memory usage, I came across a disk space issue.Â On both test Windows 2003 clients, I found that the space on [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:37:20 +0000

Try Trend Micro….It will rock your Anti-Malware world!!!

By: Tuxan1

Tuxan1 — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:36:39 +0000

Please post your finding like this. It is really an eye opener.

By: frank

frank — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:01:49 +0000

Well we have had a license for Symantec Av for a while. So its already paid for, and it would be hard to justifiy buying something else. But I am starting to investigate possible alternative solutions for the future.

By: Tuxan1

Tuxan1 — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:13:01 +0000

So, what are your options with other AV Vendors?