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

[Burrito]

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

Hmmm... that does seem to have changed.

One used to be able to buy SEP(C) on Amazon -- an unmanaged endpoint license.

I use both SEP and Norton. In my opinion, Norton is better.

 

[Dave Russo]

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

Still on sale E-Bay about 20 dollars for supposed lifetime subscription,used to be 4.95$ Symantec Endpoint Protection 14- Antivirus 2019 - Lifetime - Windows 64bit Type this in search on e-Bay

 

[alv222]

Still on sale E-Bay about 20 dollars for supposed lifetime subscription,used to be 4.95$ Symantec Endpoint Protection 14- Antivirus 2019 - Lifetime - Windows 64bit Type this in search on e-Bay

The thing is it can't be lifetime at all. Maybe pirated or someone is trying to earn money from their company's license and when they find it out they remove the device

 

[MacDefender]

SEP has some cool functionality not in Norton like the 8 or so selectable levels of SONAR aggressiveness and a bit more configurability of actions to take but Norton also has more user interactive prompting ability and a shinier UI.

Overall for home users I would recommend just sticking with Norton.... Especially since the Broadcom acquisition made it harder to buy first party SEPC licenses.

 

[ForgottenSeer 823865]

1- SEP must be managed to get the SRP module which is the most efficient module
2- SEP main reason to use it over those crap home AV suites is the above SRP and its very potent (true) firewall with IDS/IPS.

 

[Venustus]

very potent (true) firewall with IDS/IPS.

I think this module is carried on into the consumer grade products?
Norton's firewall is probably the best I have ever used

 

[alv222]

1- SEP must be managed to get the SRP module which is the most efficient module
2- SEP main reason to use it over those crap home AV suites is the above SRP and its very potent (true) firewall with IDS/IPS.

what is exactly SRP? Also IPS is in their home suites too

 

[ForgottenSeer 823865]

SRP = Software Restrction Policy, in SEP unmanaged you don't have it, it is called: Application and Device Control

Symantec Endpoint Protection Application and Device Control Security Updates | Symantec

About application control, system lockdown, and device control

Without it (in unmanaged versions), you have half of SEP real potency, so basically you get just a "better" Norton IS.

 

[Dave Russo]

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

Symantec Endpoint Protection 14.2.5323.2000 avtivated
$5.54Buy It Now

There is a copy available E-Bay

 

[alv222]

Symantec Endpoint Protection 14.2.5323.2000 avtivated
$5.54Buy It Now

There is a copy available E-Bay

Well it has ended right now, also they can be pirated, it doesnt even say the duration theres also a lifetime one wich is suspicious

 

[roger_m]

Well it has ended right now, also they can be pirated, it doesnt even say the duration theres also a lifetime one wich is suspicious

The seller has another listing for $12. Clearly it is a pirated license, just like many digital licenses sold on eBay.

 

[Dave Russo]

Best firewall I have ever
had, with options I have never seen on other Norton products

 

[ForgottenSeer 823865]

Best firewall I have ever
had, with options I have never seen on other Norton products

The real gem OF SEP.

 

[Evjl's Rain]

I had a chance to use this AV. It felt light but I don't understand why CPU usage never dropped to 0% when I was doing nothing, just observed task manager. It always consumed more than 1% even after several reboots, slight tweaks and full scan

 

[ForgottenSeer 823865]

I had a chance to use this AV. It felt light but I don't understand why CPU usage never dropped to 0% when I was doing nothing, just observed task manager. It always consumed more than 1% even after several reboots and full scan

Traffic or file monitoring is activity. it uses CPU.

 

[Evjl's Rain]

Traffic or file monitoring is activity. it uses CPU.

constant 1% 24/7 is too much
in my experience, this heavily affects the battery life of laptops more than I imagined

I don't know what it was doing to consume that much CPU and how to reduce them. I simply left the product

 

[MacDefender]

CPU percentage isn't a great indication of load. When your processor scales down from 3GHz to 800MHz, 1% seems like a lot but is not actually that much computation. Looking at the wakeups is going to be more meaningful. With that said, at low system load, an AV'S impact is going to be higher. And SEP monitors so much -- network traffic at both the connection and packet level, behavior blocking, cloud lookups, etc. This is one of the tradeoffs with a kitchen sink anti-malware suite.

 

[Vitali Ortzi]

in my experience sep isn't light for very low end devices
but can be boosted a lot via policy or unmanaged gui .
here is a few things you can do to boost it a little : Recommended security settings for Endpoint Protection

constant 1% 24/7 is too much
in my experience, this heavily affects the battery life of laptops more than I imagined

I don't know what it was doing to consume that much CPU and how to reduce them. I simply left the product

what clock speed the cpu was running at?

Still on sale E-Bay about 20 dollars for supposed lifetime subscription,used to be 4.95$ Symantec Endpoint Protection 14- Antivirus 2019 - Lifetime - Windows 64bit Type this in search on e-Bay

pm me if you want it free

 

[Evjl's Rain]

what clock speed the cpu was running at?

i7-3630QM: 2.4GHz on average load; 1.22 GHz in idle, turboboost ~3.2GHz

 

[ForgottenSeer 55474]

Hello It really sounds & looks good, but I am gonna stick with BTS, but thanks for the great review.