What Are You Doing Right Now
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Trying out the free avast business cloud antivirus.
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@johnhooks post a review, I'm curious about all these light client AV's like webroot
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@johnhooks said:
Trying out the free avast business cloud antivirus.
How many users is it free for?
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@Reid-Cooper said:
@johnhooks said:
Trying out the free avast business cloud antivirus.
How many users is it free for?
Says unlimited. https://www.avast.com/en-us/avast-for-business
It looks really nice so far. Centrally managed and free.
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@MattSpeller said:
@johnhooks post a review, I'm curious about all these light client AV's like webroot
I'm sure in no time one of these goons will get something so it shouldn't be too long.
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@johnhooks said:
@Reid-Cooper said:
@johnhooks said:
Trying out the free avast business cloud antivirus.
How many users is it free for?
Says unlimited. https://www.avast.com/en-us/avast-for-business
It looks really nice so far. Centrally managed and free.
What is the business model there? They must need to monetize this somehow, right? This looks a bit too good to be true.
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@Reid-Cooper I'll 2nd that
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@Reid-Cooper said:
@johnhooks said:
@Reid-Cooper said:
@johnhooks said:
Trying out the free avast business cloud antivirus.
How many users is it free for?
Says unlimited. https://www.avast.com/en-us/avast-for-business
It looks really nice so far. Centrally managed and free.
What is the business model there? They must need to monetize this somehow, right? This looks a bit too good to be true.
If you want the sandbox feature, email phishing detection, some kind of firewall, and some vpn abilities through them you have to pay.
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@johnhooks said:
If you want the sandbox feature, email phishing detection, some kind of firewall, and some vpn abilities through them you have to pay.
I guess that could make sense. Still, AV as a loss leader seems like an odd play.
What is the sandbox feature?
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@Reid-Cooper said:
@johnhooks said:
If you want the sandbox feature, email phishing detection, some kind of firewall, and some vpn abilities through them you have to pay.
I guess that could make sense. Still, AV as a loss leader seems like an odd play.
What is the sandbox feature?
It installs applications in a sandbox so if they are malware or a virus when you restart it's not there any longer.
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@johnhooks that's very cool
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@MattSpeller said:
@johnhooks that's very cool
I've seen it work once. No idea how they do it, but it's pretty nice.
Edit: not as in seen it only work once because it doesn't work. I mean I've only seen it happen once.
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Unbelievable - #fitnessproblems
We have 10 staff flying out of town tomorrow and I need to ship a laptop with them. They're all riding bikes to the airport (~40-50km) and can't fit it in.
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Pacing the floor waiting for some final details of a huge life change to be completed.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Pacing the floor waiting for some final details of a huge life change to be completed.
Good luck!
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Ha we now have our small intranet and messaging system running off of a raspberry pi.
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I'm not sure what everyone else has done with their day so far, but I've programmed two printers.
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@Reid-Cooper said:
@johnhooks said:
@Reid-Cooper said:
@johnhooks said:
Trying out the free avast business cloud antivirus.
How many users is it free for?
Says unlimited. https://www.avast.com/en-us/avast-for-business
It looks really nice so far. Centrally managed and free.
What is the business model there? They must need to monetize this somehow, right? This looks a bit too good to be true.
I've been running this for a few months now in a limited deployment and had a phone meeting with an Avast sales rep yesterday.
He mentioned offhandedly that whether or not we pay them, Avast is happy to have us as a customer - we're either paying them for extra features, or helping to grow their network of protected computers and adding to the "herd immunity" in a sense.
So I think the free offering could work out very well for them if it works the way they think it will - a combo of "foot in the door" sales strategy, along with being able to rapidly grow out a number of endpoints that they can learn from and adapt their business AV for.
They also have a 50% discount for qualified nonprofits that sign up for a year or more (I think that was the deal)... The difference between free and $1/endpoint is a lot more justifiable than going to some $50/endpoint solution like MBAM.
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In my head I'm picturing the meeting that codified the design for the MSN home page.
"Hey, lets make it really quick to load!"
"Good idea! Let's add a weather widget!"
"Awesome! Let's add the current news!"
"Don't forget we need some blog spam!"
"Oh and advertising too!"
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@MattSpeller said:
@johnhooks post a review, I'm curious about all these light client AV's like webroot
Webroot kicks the sh*t out of the free Avast biz client (which is not exactly lightweight). I only use the avast here for a few random machines that don't deserve to use a Webroot license. Avast works in a pinch.... that's about all I'll give it.
