Frustrated Symantec partners seek antivirus alternatives
Symantec's enterprise antivirus software has performance issues that are causing some frustrated channel partners to consider other vendors' offerings.
Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition - also a component of the vendor's Antivirus Enterprise Suite - has been breaking applications, bogging down PC performance and slowing systems to a crawl, some solution providers told CRN.
"Our customers have been seeing a lot of Symantec antivirus-related problems, such as delaying applications unnecessarily, and it's reached the point where we're disabling it on many clients," said a Symantec partner who asked not to be named.
Another solution provider who has been selling Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition since 2000 said the software used to be "the best in the industry," and Symantec made it easy for channel partners to offer licensing and rollouts to small-business clients.
