If you google Sophos vs Eset the first result is this pdf document hosted at Eset’s site that is basically a common “beat sheet” that all vendors create. Most beat sheets are made for the internal sales teams or resellers and are marked something like “confidental – do not share outside of Company X”. This one is marked confidential, but they didn’t hide it from Google so it must not be that confidential. The information is rather benign, (pretty much what you’ll find at their public comparison page) but I still found it amusing.
If you run this search:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aeset.com%2Fproducts+filetype%3Apdf
you will see about a dozen of these “confidential” comparisons.
Personally, I don’t see why beat sheets need to be secret. That’s exactly the type of information that buyers want to read.
For those of you interested in CMS, Eset is running Joomla for part of their site.
7 responses so far ↓
1 nutc4s3 // Oct 23, 2007 at 11:16 pm
HAHAHA…beat sheet with sales info on last page
This has been written by sales or marketing guy because information are incorrect when you take a look at Sophos, Symantec, McAfee…
So the idea is: extract only informations which are good for your product, put in confidential sign, don’t ask technical guys to do comparison and write “click for quote”! Stupid!
2 shitty // Jun 19, 2008 at 6:21 am
ESET never gonna beat Sophos! They are 10 years behind with their anti-virus, because the got only stupid heuristics and firewall, but no IPS.
3 Waffa // Mar 21, 2009 at 3:12 am
shitty – you do know that you talking crap right (about this 10 years behind BS?)? About IPS, well, at least host-based IPS is pretty much useless for many cases like for example against active kernel level rootkits / if system is already infected, and its really useless if user does not know what he does – one wrong answer to HIPS might make most of this protection useless, also its a performance killer. Dont get me wrong, Sophos is in top of the line product and their IPS is probably ( i hope at least) way better then Kaspersky not-so-well coded HIPS.
Yes these beat sheets are not the ones we should look if we want to buy products, but just to prove my point, that NOD is not 10 years behind Sophos i present you whit this:
Virus bulletin Eset: 54 Success / 3 Failure ( 2002 on SuSe Linux 1 time, 2000 win NT, 1998 DOS -this is all) http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/results?vendor=VE14
Virus Bulletin Sophos: 45 Success / 15 FAILURES http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/results?vendor=VE1
Sophos last failures was: 2008, 2007 – 2 times, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001 2 times… do i need to continue?
Even Symantec has scored 2 times better then this.
Of course, you can find other test, that do not count false positives so crappy antivruses can score better -but why would we need that? (& yes, VB100 is not only comp u should use)
I still think that ESET firewall is no way as good as Sophos security suite (according to some of the test i have seen) and i can believe that overall protection level might even be higher (for dumb users maybe but for more sore enterprise users will benefit more).
But please, do not come here telling BS like that about one of the world best anti virus systems
4 WaffaDrunker // Mar 21, 2009 at 3:18 am
but no need to add, that i will still always stay whit NOD32? because it is light on system, one of the fastest scanning and one of the best detection rates… well & i have had no problem running ESET smart security & Comodo firewall @ same time. ESET is most friendly AV – others will go conflict often, eset just backs off IF needed.
5 Sophos Skeptic // Jun 15, 2009 at 2:31 pm
At my company, Sophos failed to prevent or even detect an instance of “Antivirus 2009″ on a “protected” PC.
It also could NOT remove it, could NOT quarantine it, and could prevent it from generating constant pop-ups.
Y’know how I got rid of it?
MBAM – the FREE version.
Sophos is clearly not as good as some think.
6 Sophos Skeptic II // Oct 23, 2009 at 5:44 am
My company uses the Sophos software and while I won’t speak to it’s ability to identify and eliminate virii Iwill say that for user with laptops that unplug every night and reconnect every morning it is the WORST hog. Even if the computer hasn’t been powered up overnight it still insists on running it’s full test which effectively makes your computer a brick for up to 30 minutes after power-up.
7 admin // Oct 23, 2009 at 8:09 am
@Sophos Skeptic – sounds like you are just not happy with the way Sophos is configured.
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