- Dec 12, 2016
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What are your thoughts about free endpoint /endpoint garde products .
Yeah one of the best.Best (Free) program ever, for a home user a winner( I do not go into the policy stuff, I am not sure I need it)
Most machines in my house are running SEP without AV engine .Voted "other" - no AV/IS apps on my 3 home machines.
Yeah true.The only 2 "free" i know are mcafee and symantec. Mcafee is more heavy then symantec, but as unmanaged have more settings. Pls take in consideration we still cant know if the new symantec product (broadcom) is good as old days.
And in my opinion u should not consider SEPM as free, cause it need a license for run. Compare SEPM with mcafee is already wrong in my opinion. The good comparison should be SEP with mcafee.
In this already archived info you can find ifo about my seucrity config on my laptops at home. One thing is changed actualy - currently I'm using Win7 instead of Vista.Most machines in my house are running SEP without AV engine .
But I really interested what you use instead.
BTW what happened to Avast free business?
Do you have any SRP on the system?I was thinking the same. There is no free version of Avast Endpoint.
Btw, I couldn't install SEPM. It gives an error something like "visual c++ runtime couldn't be installed"
Do you have any SRP on the system?
And is it a admin account on a windows 10 pro or higher machine?
Not sure it runs on windows home.Windows 10 Home with admin accountI haven't touched SRP settings.
uninstall all vc in your system and then install these one by one. ( Vc runtime errors usually happens when some of the programs installs vc on top of the already installed vc version. Once you install this all in one package, you can always choose to say "no" if any installer asks for installing VC runtime in future.)Windows 10 Home with admin accountI haven't touched SRP settings.
Comss.ru is not a shady source, it is as legitimate source as other popular giveaway sities. I don't know what the eula says about the usage of un registered versions, I have not gone through eula, if it doesn't permit unregistered users then it's not a free to use software. But on the other hand if it doesn't explicitly prevents un registered usage then we can obviously call it as free to use software.Hold on a minute..
Just because you can find the installation packages from shady sources and these two softwares do not ask for any licence as unmanaged, it does not mean the are 'free'.
They should not be advertised as free suites whatsoever.
Comes.ru is sharing it with a trial licence of 60 days for sepm and you are not breaking any law for the trial period as the software is legitimately used as a registered trial version which the company allows as per eula. How come it becomes a shady practice then? It is up to you to decide on whether to use the sep after that. Just because you can find sharp knife in amazon.com it doesn't become a terrorist organisation atall, it is up to the user to decide what to do with the knife.It is shady as night itself.
With the same mentality, I can find Windows 10 Enterprise (or LTSC) licences for cheap but they are not legal because you need an Enterprise licence to use them.
These suites also need an Enterprise licence because they sell 50+ seats for organisations. If you are all so sure about the 'free' status why don't you navigate to their official websites and share the download links with the rest of us?
Oh wait.. you can't because you need to buy a licence first..
Edit: I work at a shipping company with 150 employees and I have seen the biannual cost of the so called 'free' SEP suite the whole building uses.
The company allows trial usage as per EULA. Key word "trial"!Comes.ru is sharing it with a trial licence of 60 days for sepm and you are not breaking any law for the trial period as the software is legitimately used as a registered trial version which the company allows as per eula. How come it becomes a shady practice then? It is up to you to decide on whether to use the sep after that. Just because you can find sharp knife in amazon.com it doesn't become a terrorist organisation atall, it is up to the user to decide what to do with the knife.