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Which Enterprise Anti-Virus Solution
Our license for Symantec Corporate Anti-Virus is up for renewal this month and I'm wondering what other products others might be using to protect their network servers and workstations. The Symantec product has worked well for us (we are using version 10.x right now) but the application itself is getting very bloated and workstation/server pefromance seems to take a big hit running the sysmantec products. So I'm looking for something that is not a big drain on system performance but gives reliable anti-virus protection.
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I recommend McAfee, each person has his or her own experiences, and each product preforms differently from admin to admin...
We moved to Best Practices, so AV is now more of a CYA measure: http://richrumble.blogspot.com/2006/08/anti-admin-vs-anti-virus.html
http://xinn.org/win_bestpractices.html
-rich
We moved to Best Practices, so AV is now more of a CYA measure: http://richrumble.blogspot.com/2006/08/anti-admin-vs-anti-virus.html
http://xinn.org/win_bestpractices.html
-rich
Enterprise AVG from grisoft works well and it less expensive.
Also agree with AVG but you should use a layered approach we put all the servers behind a firewall with AV and IDS and 2 inline AV network boxes (Pandagate and network virus wall) and have AV boxes scanning incoming web,mail and IM and run AVG on the desktops
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We're using GFI Mail Security and Mail Essentials for Exchange at the SMTP gateway but running Symantec at the servers and clients. I've gotten used to Symantics System Console for keeping track of client status, how does AVG address that ? I also seem to remember that AVG updates quite often require reboots.
symantec sucks
if you have a domain system try Trend Micro OfficeScan.
it is most suitable for enterprises as it has got centralised control, virus def.updating, web console facility and is very less resource intensive unlike Norton and Mcafee
if you have a domain system try Trend Micro OfficeScan.
it is most suitable for enterprises as it has got centralised control, virus def.updating, web console facility and is very less resource intensive unlike Norton and Mcafee
Kaspersky's Business Optimal is the best one i have used, when we moved from Symantec corporate to it it picked stuff up the Symantec had missed -
http://www.kaspersky.co.uk/business_products. if you check any independant AV review, Kaspersky will always be in the top 3, if not top
http://www.kaspersky.co.uk/business_products. if you check any independant AV review, Kaspersky will always be in the top 3, if not top
What exactly is the drain you are experiencing with SAV10? I have found it to work well, except you may need to do a regedit on your clients to fix rtvscan.exe and a few other processes from eating the processor. Some will do this, others won't.... but you'll see a big difference once you apply the fixes.
Check out this link from symantec
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-security.nsf/0/d908f24bf3de4fa188256ff0006031b7?OpenDocument&seg=hm&lg=en&ct=us
I know they had similar issues with certain client versions, which are fixed by regedits. So perhaps this may be the issues you are having.