

12.x was a quantum leap from 11 and we've just moved up to 14 and have been well pleased so far. I agree with others here who feel the product has improved greatly in the past few years. We've got the full-blown enterprise edition that has the centralized management server and that makes a huge difference. Judged on that basis, I'd say SEP is as good as it gets. I just view them as a necessary evil and I just want them to do their job and not cause me any problems. I can't say I love it either but then I can't say that about any AV product. I lobbied hard to get rid of SEP when I started here but management didn't want to incur the costs of switching so I just got used to it and slowly learned to hate it less and less. I was aware of SEP's reputation and had used older version in the past and knew first hand how awful they were. At first it was against my will because that's what we had when I started at my current job.

I have been an SEP user for over 10 years though. I have used Malwarebytes' free edition to scrub infected machines but have never used the real-time protection features. Run 'em both and disable one if you bump into trouble. Now our phones have multi-core processors.ĭifferent AV products have different strengths so I agree with the I've always heard that you shouldn't run two AV programs at once thatīoth have real-time components but I think that line of thinking wasīorn in the days before the lowest end computers had multi-core CPU's.
