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What is a good antivirus for Windows Server 2003?

Asked by: samsamall

Could anyone tell me which is a good antivirus for Windows Server 2003? I plan to install Win Server 2003 as a domain controller for my Network.

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2009-08-13 at 01:20:38ID24649052
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Answers

 

by: demazterPosted on 2009-08-13 at 01:27:05ID: 25086262

There is no real right or wrong answer to this question, there are a number of different experts that will post a number of different answers.
Personally I like ESET because it is not resource hungry and is pretty reliable, has a central management console to allow you to administer your clients.

I tend to avoid Symantec as it's very resource hungry and you tend to have to add another 512MB of RAM after every upgrade.

 

by: nishitcruisePosted on 2009-08-13 at 01:42:32ID: 25086351

Hi,

I will suggest Avira Antivirus, currently it is the best solution available in the market, i personally tested it and got very good results.

Link : http://www.avira.com/en/products/avira_antivir_server.html

Hope this will help you.

 

by: dariusgPosted on 2009-08-13 at 06:40:55ID: 25088062

McAfee has been a good product without any issues. McAfee doesn't have memory leak issues like most AVs do or conflicts with Windows updates.  

I would have to disagree with Avira being the best solution on the market because of memory leak issues that I have experience with Avira. Also, I have been involved with some posts where Avira was causing problems with memory leaks.

I agree with demazter stay away from Symantec. Their lastest product Symantec Endpoint causes problems with network communication. I have just experienced their newest verison released at a huge site which caused multiple network communication issues.

 

by: leewPosted on 2009-08-13 at 07:16:16ID: 25088460

I do not recommend any product (except grudgingly, BackupExec) from Symantec - too many problems over the years from conflicts with patches, updates, and other applications to problems with effectiveness (over the years, I was involved in 3 major virus outbreaks - each used Symantec to "protect" them).

I generally recommend McAfee - they are bloated, but effective.  for business, you get McAfee Enterprise.  For home use, you DO NOT get McAfee as their home product is quite possible the most bloated one out there... close to if not more so than Norton (it pains me to say that).  The home product is still effective, but it's memory footprint is unacceptable in my opinion.

I've tried Avira (no US based phone support; at least easily found - you have to call internationally), Eset's NOD32 (not effective against certain drive-by web stuff (a client was infected twice on two different machines using it and it falsely identified a security app as a trojan)), and Kaspersky is currently the only one I can say I've not had any problem with - but it's installed in a business with only 3 users, so odds of a problem are pretty low.  There are plenty of others... but the McAfee business stuff is what I prefer.

 

by: ChiefITPosted on 2009-08-13 at 22:36:20ID: 25095464

I like to comment on these by saying that an AV product is used after a computer is already infected. Still get the AV product that coincides with your needs, but look into a really good security plan that will help you from becoming infected. An IT security plan should include, at the very least:

LUA (least User Authorization)
AV product
AS product ( I like Malware bytes)
Windows updates server or plans to update computers
security auditing tool- like Harris stat scan, (there are open source utilities that can do this for you)
disaster recovery and backups (there are free tools for this as well)
Maybe a web proxy
spam filtration on your mail servers.
making sure your users and administrators are knowledgeable on how to protect themselves.


Things like this help you from a real K-tastrophy.

 

by: samsamallPosted on 2009-08-24 at 01:45:59ID: 31615209

Thanks

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