I recently removed the Network Threat Protection component from the Symantec Endpoint Protection installation on all of the servers and desktops on a customer network. Here is a list of things that happened as a result:
- Backup throughput increased by 50% (using Symantec Backup Exec 11d)
- Exchange backups stopped failing due to the remote agent becoming disconnected
- Performance of SQL-based applications improved
- Group Policy processing time at desktop startup decreased
- LDAP search query times for the Exchange server improved (System Center Essentials was raising alarms for these taking over 6000ms sustained for 5 minutes, with the alarm threshold being 100ms)
- RPC latency for the Exchange server improved (SCE was raising alarms for average latency being over 70ms sustained for 5 minutes)
- Office applications opening files on network shares became more responsive
- Desktops stopped rebooting randomly throughout the day
Seriously, what a piece of junk.
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