Symantec Endpoint Security Protection review for home use! - Andrew3000 personal feedback - standard unmanaged client

[Andrew3000]

Disclaimer: The review is based on the tests I conducted, the mindset used to conduct the tests is for home protection and not for a company. I hope I’ve been helpful, I'm open to suggestions.

 

[marcopaone]

Wow

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Great review Is it possible to add some screenshots of the UI ?

 

[Andrew3000]

Great review Is it possible to add some screenshots of the UI ?

Spoiler: Images

 

[beavisviruses]

one of the best av in the market

 

[blueblackwow65]

Agree but I found this to be heavy ,don't know why ,150-200 megs ram seems to be wrong .I tries this awhile back and got 20-30megs ram.Wonder why the high usage?

 

[Andrew3000]

Agree but I found this to be heavy ,don't know why ,150-200 megs ram seems to be wrong .I tries this awhile back and got 20-30megs ram.Wonder why the high usage?

Nice question my friend. On my system it has """impact""" only on RAM. Windows and programs also have their own way of handling RAM. The more free RAM, the more they use it.
Honestly it is not very high use of RAM, bitdefender occupies 400-500mb (Home protection).

 

[Wraith]

SEP is indeed a great product. It's stable, has a ton of tweaking options, is lightning fast and most importantly has superb malware protection. I have it installed in my college laptop and even though I've thrown tons of crap at it, it has managed to keep the laptop safe and secure. Once or twice it did give me false positives but it's nothing to worry about. The only complaint that I have is sometimes it doesn't update automatically. Whenever I run a manual update I find the database version number always changes indicating that auto update is not working always.

 

[Andrew3000]

SEP is indeed a great product. It's stable, has a ton of tweaking options, is lightning fast and most importantly has superb malware protection. I have it installed in my college laptop and even though I've thrown tons of crap at it, it has managed to keep the laptop safe and secure. Once or twice it did give me false positives but it's nothing to worry about. The only complaint that I have is sometimes it doesn't update automatically. Whenever I run a manual update I find the database version number always changes indicating that auto update is not working always.

Have you tried to put the update frequency in continuously mode?

 

[blueblackwow65]

How is the ram usage devjit just curious Thks

 

[Dave Russo]

one of the best av in the market

Would you be willing to give your top 3 Av"s?

Giving it a spin after finding a dirt cheap price on e-bay,impressed as its firewall passes the cursed {,The Test - Test Your Metal by Fortinet} ,test ,only saw Eset pass it,Can"t find any tests against malware on internet ,anyone have a link? Seems solid,but outside of Andrew3000 review{He seems to be well informed} any more second opinions?

 

[Wraith]

Have you tried to put the update frequency in continuously mode?

It's set an 1 hour interval. I'll try the continuous mode.

 

[Bill K]

Would you be willing to give your top 3 Av"s?

Giving it a spin after finding a dirt cheap price on e-bay,impressed as its firewall passes the cursed {,The Test - Test Your Metal by Fortinet} ,test ,only saw Eset pass it,Can"t find any tests against malware on internet ,anyone have a link? Seems solid,but outside of Andrew3000 review{He seems to be well informed} any more second opinions?

I also found a seller on eBay from Germany who claims to providing a download link for an activated SEP 14 with lifetime license and updates for a very low price. Is such a product license even a reality? I thought you have to pay per month... I'm guessing that this would be tied to some existing account which will remain under their control. I'd appreciate any advice on whether this is even worth considering or if it's just another example of something being too good to be true. TIA

 

[beavisviruses]

Would you be willing to give your top 3 Av"s?

Giving it a spin after finding a dirt cheap price on e-bay,impressed as its firewall passes the cursed {,The Test - Test Your Metal by Fortinet} ,test ,only saw Eset pass it,Can"t find any tests against malware on internet ,anyone have a link? Seems solid,but outside of Andrew3000 review{He seems to be well informed} any more second opinions?

Kaspersky Norton and Bitdefender

 

[Dave Russo]

I also found a seller on eBay from Germany who claims to providing a download link for an activated SEP 14 with lifetime license and updates for a very low price. Is such a product license even a reality? I thought you have to pay per month... I'm guessing that this would be tied to some existing account which will remain under their control. I'd appreciate any advice on whether this is even worth considering or if it's just another example of something being too good to be true. TIA

Its working for me,same seller,I think you are right about the existing account.GL

Its working for me,same seller,I think you are right about the existing account.GL

I f you decide to try ,I recommend manual updating,left side inb Blue section,as I have not found the continuous mode mentioned by others yet

 

[Bill K]

Its working for me,same seller,I think you are right about the existing account.GL

I think I'm going to pass on this... not comfortable with my 'lifetime license' being under the control of an external account which I have no control over. Thanks for your input sharing your experience Dave!

 

[SeriousHoax]

Great review. I personally tried it few months ago. I have exactly the same opinion about the program specially the notification part. It really is very annoying. Auto protect did this or that popup and it also comes in the middle of the screen instead of bottom right. As far as I remember the notification doesn't automatically go away too after a while like normal Antivirus program. But except this everything is great. Any home user can use it if they want.

 

[Burrito]

I think I'm going to pass on this... not comfortable with my 'lifetime license' being under the control of an external account which I have no control over. Thanks for your input sharing your experience Dave!

Yeah, this sounds like some sysadmin ripping off his company.

All will be ok until the company decides to audit all those home-use accounts.... and then it will be game over. And that eBay seller will be gone..

Kaspersky Norton and Bitdefender

Yeah, setting aside the next-gen ML types (Cylance, CrowdStrike, Deep Instinct...) those three are THE three that have consistently tested best across platforms, against all types of malware, and with all of the major test organizations --- for over a decade. Other products come and go... but those are the three.

 

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I agree with what he said Burrito .

 

[alv222]

It's only on sale for business and the only way to get a trial is with an account and in ebay it costs a lot. Did they offer it for private users before?
Sorry for replying to an old thread