On Thursday night I attended the monthly Thames Valley SBSC group, which is held at the Symantec Offices in Reading. On Thursday , we had the privilege of hearing James Baker from Symantec talk about the SEP (Symantec EndPoint Protection) products.

Of course I have always been very sceptical about some of the AntiVirus offerings coming from Symantec, especially the “Norton” product range. The first thing I do when I see Norton Internet Security is do “Add/Remove” as I constantly have issues with it, usually I install something else, like AVG.

However I listened with intent about what the product could do and spoke to some of the other members, during the Pizza Break, about their experiences with the product. Most of the comments were that its a pretty good product. Of the 3 or 4 people I spoke to all the comments were very positive.

I have been looking into changing the AntiVirus products I supply and install for my customers, which is currently a mixture of AVG and Trend. This talk by Symantec could not have come at a better time,.

I have now signed up to the Symantec Partner program, whereby you can download a trial copy of SEP. I have installed this on one of my test servers in the lab, and I must say, I am very impressed with the product.

Along with all the other Symatec products, offered by us to our customers, such as BackupExec. I think we will soon have our clients “SYMATECISED“

For more information on their partner program, visit http://www.symantec.com/partners/