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Re: Student Antivirus Replacement Project
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Buchanan)
Wed Oct 12 15:08:27 2011
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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:05:18 -0400
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From: Derek Buchanan <buchands@gmail.com>
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Andy,
Respones inline...
1. What did/would you move to?
We moved to Forefront for Faculty/Staff (which our license currently
includes). Students can run whatever they want or if they need one, we
recommend Microsoft Security Essentials as a freebie.
> 2. How do you handle the PR campaign to the students to get them to
> switch? We don't want to tell them we've been giving them a bad product
> that we paid for for the last few years, but we still want them to switch.
> Also, faculty/staff may not make the switch at the same time, so we don't
> want them to see the ads and make a fuss over not getting the best product.
>
We did not do a PR campaign per se. We stopped using Cisco Clean Access
which was forcing select AV clients. We were behind at least two versions
and the cost was just too high. We went with Palo Alto for a network
protection device. There is no checking for AV at this point. Students are
prompted for user ID and password on a webpage before they can get on the
internet.
>
> 3. Do you have any gripes over Symantec you'd like to share?
>
Symantec, was slow in my opinion from the previous college that I worked at.
The install/uninstall did not work as advertised. (Say hello to Norton
Removal Tool!) We switched off from Mcafee here at MBC as the price kept
going up and the performance kept going down. It was a waste of time and
money.
Hope that helps,
Derek
Mary Baldwin College
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Andy, <br>Respones inline...<br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><blockquote =
class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid=
;padding-left:1ex;">
1. =A0What did/would you move to?</blockquote><div>=A0</div><div>We moved t=
o Forefront for Faculty/Staff (which our license currently includes).=A0 S=
tudents can run whatever they want or if they need one, we recommend Micros=
oft Security Essentials as a freebie.<br>
</div><div>=A0<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin: =
0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left:=
1ex;">
2. =A0How do you handle the PR campaign to the students to get them to swit=
ch? =A0We don't want to tell them we've been giving them a bad prod=
uct that we paid for for the last few years, but we still want them to swit=
ch. =A0Also, faculty/staff may not make the switch at the same time, so we =
don't want them to see the ads and make a fuss over not getting the bes=
t product.<br>
</blockquote><div>=A0</div><div>We did not do a PR campaign per se.=A0 We s=
topped using Cisco Clean Access which was forcing select AV clients.=A0 We =
were behind at least two versions and the cost was just too high.=A0 We wen=
t with Palo Alto for a network protection device.=A0 There is no checking f=
or AV at this point.=A0 Students are prompted for user ID and password on a=
webpage before they can get on the internet.=A0 <br>
=A0</div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8=
ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>
3. =A0Do you have any gripes over Symantec you'd like to share?<br></bl=
ockquote><div>=A0</div><div>Symantec, was slow in my opinion from the previ=
ous college that I worked at. The install/uninstall did not work as adverti=
sed.=A0 (Say hello to Norton Removal Tool!)=A0 We switched off from Mcafee =
here at MBC as the price kept going up and the performance kept going down.=
=A0 It was a waste of time and money.<br>
<br>Hope that helps,<br>Derek<br>Mary Baldwin College<br></div></div>
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