McAfee Enterprise 8.5 beta 3

http://www.mcafee.com/us/enterprise/downloads/beta/index.html

Been testing for a while. Very low on system resources and fast loading

Other who tried it, and if so what do you think?

Greetings from Denmark

 

nope havent tryed it but oddly your pc has almost the same specs as mine lol.

i got 3200 amd 64bit and ati 9800 radeon and 1gb of ram

 

Maby you shold try it out then too

 

what other av's have you tryed on your system? and how light where they e.g. nod32 kaspersky and so on

 

tried everything... almost
this is what i tested recently - I like software where Im able to tweak the settings so software like nod32 really attracts me

All software tested on both my laptop and desktop.


KAV 2006 - Light when running but very slow pc startup

McAfee Total Protection 2007 - Light but slow pc startup (i really liked the antivirus!!)

McAfee Enterprise 8.5 beta 3 - Fast startup and running!

Trend Micro 2007 beta - Slow slow slow in every way. Didnt handle large files (iso's, rars ect.) very well!!

Symantec 2007 beta - Much lighter than previous versions - But many errors (beta) so i dumped it quick

Antivir 2007 beta - Lightest suites of them all! very fast startup, but got tired of that "expired 27 days" box

Nod 32 2.5... fast with settings maxed - both startup and running

Bitdefender 10 beta - pretty light both startup and running.



Looking forward testing: symantec 2007 when working and Comodo 2, Norman 6 & Nod 3

 

thanks for the useful info. for kaspersky did you use the startup scan?

 

Nope, turned off. My laptop slows down way to much when turned on. I presume KAV doing its job so good, that it's not needed Unfortunatly it just didnt work well with Comodo so

 

I have tryed quite alot of av's. i have tryed kav 6.0 both relased version and lastest beta. nod32 2.5 is a good av and cant wait to try version 3.0. im looking for lighter secuirty software, av, firewall and antispyware or HIPS.

by antivir 2007 beta do you mean antivir premium with firewall beta?

 

i once tried the entreprise version and it had a completely different UI and stuff...
how is it different from the normal mcafee AV??

 

Premium It was not just faster than the other suits - It was almost just as fast loading as NOD 32 2.5 - Impressive - The other Companies could learn something here...!

It will be very exciting to see if NOD creates a firewall as good as their antivirus and as light!

 

Its much lighter with more options and of course can be managed remotly like any enterprise antivira.

And nod32 it is seperated in modules of some sort with a lot of settings for each:

acces protection
buffer owerflow protection
email scanner
unwanted programes policy
on acces scanner
quantine manger policy
full scan
autoupdate

Theres a long beta test period so give it a try- easy to remove if u dont like it

 

do you think antivir is gives enough protection with no http scanner?

 

Yes I do. The other day i wanted to do some leaktests and the antivir killed every single program i tried to dload. I also tried some of all thes nasty porn sites and nothing got in except the pictures

 

wow its that good

 

.. and mcafee total protection did the same.

Note this is not a crusade for McAfee. Just telling that I dont think their products sucks like many people think thay do

 

I have always thought that the enterprise versions have better features interfaces use less resourse and and better detection but of course as a home user i dont have acess to them lol

 

When you say Light? Do you mean it "feels" light or light by numerical value? i.e by watch its CPU resources usage over time and general VM usage and Working Set.

 

iirc, mcafee vse doesnt give u the option of "prompt" or "ask" when a virus is found. is this still the same?

i will install it on my windows x64 machine later today.

 

yes, you can configure it to show a window where you can delete, deny, clean etc..

default action is clean...

 

so you can u set default action to prompt?

 

to answer my own question, u can set it to prompt for on-demand scans but not on-access.

the AV seems light but it does have a few processes and it uses more memory than either nod32 or kav.

i wish they had a firewall to test tho, i need something for x64.

 

Well i gave up i keep getting BSOD when installing it and i dont seems to have a way to uninstall it too.