To help reduce costs the LSO turns off its computers and related
equipment when not in use. This means that vital tasks such as
virus scanning must be carried out during office hours at a time
when it is least disruptive, normally on Friday afternoons.
However, when scanning started to impact heavily on performance
of the network and the productivity of employees it was decide
to look for a new supplier.
“We chose ESET because of its small installation, relatively low
demand on system resources and its high malware detection
rate. It’s also worth noting that the technical support we
have received from ESET has been absolutely great. One of
the aspects we like about Endpoint Antivirus is that it can be
configured to work exactly how we want it to, but sometimes
this means a call into ESET just to clarify a technical point.
Every question or issue has been dealt with by extremely
knowledgeable and helpful people. They really know their
product well."
-Quentin Bradley, ICT of the LSO
“Recreating data from a machine linked to crime would normally be asking for
trouble, but we know that we can rely on ESET Endpoint Antivirus to identify the
threats, whilst allowing us to decide what action to take.”
Endpoint Antivirus can be configured to suit an organisation’s
individual needs. Typically, companies require minimal user
intervention and it is automatically set to delete or quarantine
all suspicious files, reporting incidents to the administrator
through the centralised management console.
“We’ve been using ESET Endpoint Antivirus since 2005 and
ESET is still the vendor with the most VB100 awards and the
one that as the smallest footprint, two of the key reasons we
chose the product in the first place."
—DC Tristan Oliver , Dorset Hi-Tech Crime Unit
Ensuring that computers remain virus free when they are used by hundreds of
children everyday to surf the web, collect email and plug-in a myriad of storage
devices is just the sort of challenge that has given ESET Endpoint Antivirus its enviable
reputation.
“I find the management console very intuitive and hardly
need to refer to the manual at all. It is also very flexible in
its use and every aspect is clearly laid out. When we first
changed over to Endpoint Antivirus we had the entire
product installed and rolled out onto the network in no time
at all problem free. Since then we’ve not had much to do with
it. The product manages itself more or less and I receive email
alerts should there be any queries or a problem."
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—Wayne Govier, Network Manager, Brighton College
Dorset County Council chose ESET NOD32 Antivirus to protect its
IT infrastructure back in 2005. Although it has periodically
considered other competitive products, it continues to use ESET
because of its reliability in stopping threats entering the
network, its light footprint that helps to extend the lifetime
of older machines and an extremely fast scanning speed.
In 2005, after a rigorous assessment of several leading antivirus
products, the council chose ESET Endpoint Antivirus. “The first thing
we noticed when we switched to ESET was that the number of
malware related incidents on the network dropped right off, and it’s
not because the amount of malware has diminished either."
—Tony Beazer, Infrastructure Officer of Dorset County Council