Tired of AVG. Which antivirus to sell?

+1 for Eset, and here's why. I am a security "buff" (eventually looking to go into either IT security or AV programming once I finish my degree) and I have done real world tests of AV products (I have +131,000 real, live malware samples) and my employer was looking to switch away from Avast free. I randomly pulled a handful of samples (from real, actual worms that spread over networks without human intervention to build-a-virus toolkits) and Eset detected everything except for an installer for a registry cleaner (which wasn't flagged at the time by any of the virus total engines either).

However, my employer was interested in the free product in this trial (Eset was the control case...) 360 Internet Security (now 360 Total Security Essentials) which uses 5 different engines (only three are turned on by default). http://www.360totalsecurity.com/features/360-total-security-essential/
 
OaksLabs said:
+1 for Eset, and here's why. I am a security "buff" (eventually looking to go into either IT security or AV programming once I finish my degree) and I have done real world tests of AV products (I have +131,000 real, live malware samples) and my employer was looking to switch away from Avast free. I randomly pulled a handful of samples (from real, actual worms that spread over networks without human intervention to build-a-virus toolkits) and Eset detected everything except for an installer for a registry cleaner (which wasn't flagged at the time by any of the virus total engines either).

However, my employer was interested in the free product in this trial (Eset was the control case...) 360 Internet Security (now 360 Total Security Essentials) which uses 5 different engines (only three are turned on by default). http://www.360totalsecurity.com/features/360-total-security-essential/
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I was using 360 Total Security for the longest as a free solution but stopped and switched over to Avast as a free solution to family and friends.

360 began to nag a lot with pop ups and security firewalls going off. I downloaded the full suite. The original product was great but then it started to become buggy and slow. After finally going back to Avast free I think it does an excellent job for the day to day on a machine. I also used ESET for a year and I thought it was pretty good, never had any issues. So I would recommend that as a paid solution that long with Kapersky.
 
I've started reselling BD, however I'm not liking that you have to sign up every client with an account, unless I've been just been completely missing something. I also don't prefer their installation method of an install file that then downloads the remainder from the net, over a slow connection it's very frustrating.
 
I have been seeing a lot of computers coming in where they can't login and get the message "User profile service failed the login" Once I fix that I have been finding most have AVG on them. It seems something with AVG is corrupting the profiles. We have businesses on bitdefender through N-able and working on moving residential customers to that so they just get a bill for it every year and more likely to renew through us for future income as well.
 
We've been selling Panda's Enterprise solutions for a while now. They had a similar issue like AVG last year, but have recovered well.
 
We've been selling bitdefender as part of the Maxfocus RMM. Top class detection but find its very hard on workstation resources. One client who we had on Symantec Endpoint wants us to put them back!
 
Endakd said:
We've been selling bitdefender as part of the Maxfocus RMM. Top class detection but find its very hard on workstation resources. One client who we had on Symantec Endpoint wants us to put them back!
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Doesn't Max allow a few different profiles?
We have 3x profiles, stock, that N-Able has pre-canned for you.
We use the medium one...no firewall or content filter, for our standard..the AV itself is still on full. On standard horsepower rigs...doesn't bog down at all. And then the 3rd profile is "low system resource"...which is tweaked down a bit, to install on older, under-spec'd systems..and it does fine.
 
Funny enough, when you install free antivirus, probably 60 to 70% of the time the customer ends up succumbing to the AV's ads and ends up buying the paid version anyway...so...either the AV company gets the money, or you do. (Starting to see the light on this, yes).
 
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TechLady said:
Funny enough, when you install free antivirus, probably 60 to 70% of the time the customer ends up succumbing to the AV's ads and ends up buying the paid version somehow. So...either the AV company gets the $$, or you do. Ha ha.
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And if AV companies would give a bonus to us companies for such upgrades it would be worth doing.
 
I've played with it, seemed like on one system I had trouble with it deactivating when it was time to upgrade or something. If I remember right when I was testing, it would complain about being out of date and wouldn't let you do anything until you went to the portal and downloaded and installed it again. I need to look more at it though and test with it.
 
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