Positive Feedback
Updated: 19 Aug 2010 | 30 comments
Hi All,
We all have a tendancy to jump up and down when something goes wrong, but less of a tendancy to praise when somehting goes right....
I just wanted to share the fact the SEP may have just saved my bacon.
Packed.Generic.232 coming in on dozens of emails.
Passing straight through our external email AV provider (Postini AKA Google), passing straight through Sophos AV on our internal mail servers.
SEP is picking it up up thankfully.
I'm not saying that the other vendors are 'bad' because they didn't pick it up (although it is concerning why 2 of the three didn't get it - 1 I might accept as normal)
But this does highlight why multiple vendors are a good idea.
Nick
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Good to hear
Thats very nice of you..that you took out time to appreciate it..
Otherwise normal human tendency is to blame when when it doesn't work..
But when it works good..we think it is doing what it is supposed to do..
VMWARE-- SEP 12.1 vs McAfee vs Trend Micro
Good to know we all chose the
Good to know we all chose the right product for enpoint protection.
And kudos to your setup. I'm guessing top level management is unconcerned about this since the network is still safe. Thumbs up!
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
Great to see people praising
Great to see people praising SEP too. It's pretty good, not perfect yet, but it's getting there.
Thumbs up for you Nick.
Cheers.
Abhishek Pradhan, PMP, MCT
Consultant | Microsoft Corp.
Blog: http://blog.abhishekpradhan.net | SIG Lead - Pune IT Pro (Microsoft Pune User Group) | http://www.puneusergroup.org
Great Comments
Comments like this will definitely increase our Net Promoter Score.
Cheers !!!
Prachand Kumar MCSE-2003 Symantec Technical Specialist (SCTS)
Nickf, Thanks for the
Nickf, Thanks for the positive story. We all tend to forget that with all the negative issues presented to us, that there are many customers that are happy with theses products. Thanks again.
Cheers,
Thomas
We've had a flood of the
We've had a flood of the Packed.Generic.232 as well. We're running Symantec CE 10 and it's catching it as well. I do wonder why there's no information on Symantec's site regarding this particular trojan....reg keys to check, etc.
Julie, I am checking on why
Julie,
I am checking on why that threat is not listed. I will update here when I have new information.
Thomas
You almost never hear when
You almost never hear when things are going well with a product, but always hear about the bad stuff. I mean people dont join and post on these forums to only post positive experiences...
There is an online portal, save yourself the long hold times. Create ticket online, then call in with ticket # in hand :-) http://mysupport.symantec.com "We backup data to restore, we don't backup data just to back it up."
@ Julie, We do not have a
@ Julie,
We do not have a write-up for Packed.Generic.232 threat. This threat family tends to have a generic write-up stating:
"Packed.Generic.XXX is a heuristic detection for files that may have been obfuscated or encrypted in order to conceal them from antivirus software."
Let me know if you need more info.
Cheers,
Thomas
Thanks, Thomas!
Thanks, Thomas! I think our staff is confident that SAV is taking care of these as they come in. Have a great day!
Thanks Nick...
Thanks Nick...
I am sure this would make all of us smile .. THUMBS UP from me..
Thanks :-)
Kedar Mohile http://kedarmohile.blogspot.com
Thanks Nick, your comments
Thanks Nick, your comments are refreshing to see on a forum.
Glad to hear NickF, as you know.
there are a lot of folks here to help.
Eric
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Big thumbs up from me as
Big thumbs up from me as well. All we usually hear is SEP didn't pick this virus up but blank and blank anti-virus did. I am glad you took the time out to write out that SEP picked up something that others didn't. Like others have said this is very refreshing. Made me happy to read through all of the positive comments : )
Grant-
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Prachand Kumar MCSE-2003 Symantec Technical Specialist (SCTS)
Good to hear you that, I
Good to hear you that, I agreed that SEP is Good AV when it comes to Virus detection, although some end user doesnt satisfy to it But I ignore them I believe on what I see and experienced.
Thanks there is an AV like this .
:-)
keep up the good work
SEP MR4 MP2 running company wide. up to date definitions.
conficker just went through network. symantec is stupid enough to detect it and notify but not actually stop it from spreading.
won't be renewing.
SEP isnt supposed to be the
SEP isnt supposed to be the end all be all. It is part of your overall security solution. I have my complaints about SEP, but I havent seen a better single source alternative.
I'd like to know your
I'd like to know your complaints. Just to prepare myself for my client. And you could also turn your complaints into ideas.
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
Please post your complaints
Please post your complaints and we will help you resolve that.
:-)
Endpoint has improved a lot
Endpoint has improved a lot if compared with 11.0.780 version. But still there are lots of issues to be fixed which I am sure will be fixed in the coiming upgardes.
It is good when someone
It is good when someone appreciatte SEP's good perf and still doesn't give negative feedback on others..
Positive comments are really
Positive comments are really good...
specially adding the deatils of resolution...
thanks nick for sharing this to us...
by the way, what action did Symantec Av did to the Packed.Generic.232 virus?
did you still need physicall intervention or was it automatic?
thanks...
Nel Ramos
Appriciating story. Good to
Appriciating story.
Good to hear that we all are participating in a good product's Forum.
Keep the momentum going
Regards'
Ajit Jha
Technical Consultant
STS
Symantec is THE NO.1
Symantec is THE NO.1 Enterprise Security Company in the World, THE NO.1 Customer Security Company in the World, THE NO.1 Backup Company in the World....
and surely Comments like this will definitely increase our Net Promoter Score.....
Kudos to you....
Mithun Sanghavi
Symantec Technical Support Engineer, SEP
MIM | MCSA | SCTS | ITIL v3
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Don't forget to mark your thread as 'SOLVED' with the answer that best helped yo
Responsible Sys admin
People tend to forget or they are not aware that there are a large number of variants for a single strand of viruses, and the number of samples that we have for testing is limited, but even with the limit of the samples that we have, we are making a pretty good job of detecting viruses, provided the AV is up-to date.
The employees in a company should also act responsible by not visiting sites or running software that may provide a path for virus to get in.
All i hear from people when i am with Sys admin would be that the SEP does not detect viruses or SEP detects it but does not remove the viruses. Is that the case with all the viruses, SEP detects lots and lots of viruses but may miss upon 1 or 2 that too because of the system environment or the way a profile is configured.
Little do people know that SEP has a way of scanning which no other vendor has, its OFS, open file scanning. When enabled all those viruses that were not removed by SEP due to "access Denied" would be removed.
When things are used and when properly maintained little chance of it going bad.
We have and will be maintaining "OUR SEP" in a way that no other av can even be called as a match for SEP
Kedarnath R,
Master of Science, Information Technology, Msc.IT
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer,
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist,
Certified Ethical Hacker,
Nice to hear about something
Nice to hear about something like this. Keep it up with more positive feedback :)
Thank you!
NickF,
I'd like to take this opportunity to express our deepest and heartfelt appreciation for choosing Symantec.
Again, thank you so much, we value you as a customer.
Thanks and Regards Lynelle
SEP like, Smart & Professional Man that works Silent & Continual
Hello to all Professional's Network Admins.
Realy i think that, when the Yellow Shield of SEP with Green DOT is Present on Windows Status bar, it's like a Police that lookup Around your Machines & Check All Network Activities withou notification to anybody & we fill Safety around ourself.
When the users sometime look at the SEP icon's in, it Seems that Confident will help to work Better & Better. Remember that, when SEP is working smootely, Everything is OK & nobody knows, what's Behind it, Sometimes when some Errors Accured, maybe the Helpdesk show us the SEP Logs & at that time, we know that, How SEP is working. But Sometimes, Some Worms or ... will Scape & so, SEP dosn't know it or such a thing ...
So, we will Angry about it & we Call Support & OUTCRY about it " Like me & sometimes you too :-) ". So, is we JUSTICE about it. SEP is one of the Quiet Antiviruses on the World & i think that we Sohould say to SEP ( THANK YOU, VERY MUCH SEP ) .
Best Regards, Jalal Nourbakhsh - System Administrator & Security Manager
Dear Nourbakhsh,
Dear Nourbakhsh,
Salam
Because I have a problem with SEP,I think you can help me.
Please informed me your phone or mobile by PM or Email.
Best regards
Hamvatan
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