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.
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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.
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