Suggestions for Corporate or Enterprise level Antiviurs
I have search for this question, but they seem to be out of date now. I am looking for suggestion on a corporate or enterprise level virus protection. We are currently using Norton Corp. 10 which will be out of date as of 8/08. We have a 50 user network with 6 servers. Five of which are MS 2003 and one MS 2000.
The servers are: 1-Exchange 2003, 1-MSQL2005, 1-MSQL2000, 1-Blackberry, 1-Terminal, 1-Document. Two of the servers are DC's. All workstation are XP Pro SP2. All are sitting behind a Pix 515. I would like to have a central management, network protection and anti spamming would be nice, but most I have found don't work or are resource hogs. I will not consider McAfee, very bad experiences with them many times over. If I don't have to attend a university, I might consider MicroTrend. The Symantec's I have tried in the last year have real proven to be resource hogs themselves and I am hoping someone has tried one that isn't since I am use to them. Any comments will be helpful.
The servers are: 1-Exchange 2003, 1-MSQL2005, 1-MSQL2000, 1-Blackberry, 1-Terminal, 1-Document. Two of the servers are DC's. All workstation are XP Pro SP2. All are sitting behind a Pix 515. I would like to have a central management, network protection and anti spamming would be nice, but most I have found don't work or are resource hogs. I will not consider McAfee, very bad experiences with them many times over. If I don't have to attend a university, I might consider MicroTrend. The Symantec's I have tried in the last year have real proven to be resource hogs themselves and I am hoping someone has tried one that isn't since I am use to them. Any comments will be helpful.
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I forgot to add that AVG also has a Web and LinkScanner. It integrates with, for example, Google search results and shows you whether it is safe or not to view a web page. With the paid licenses, you also get a very good technical support service too.
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I have to say I follow suit with fhmc, regarding Symantec and Norton Anti-Virus software.
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So far this is great, thanks guys. I was considering Microtrend, but everyone I knew that used it said it was complicated and tend to cause unusual problems with DB's.
I have used grisoft on desktops, but did not know they had a network version.
Casey where can I get more info on Sophos? How is it on resources?
I have used grisoft on desktops, but did not know they had a network version.
Casey where can I get more info on Sophos? How is it on resources?
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Sophos is very lightweight for an AV... Yea trend is good but hard to use. SAV corporate 10 cannot be continued to much longer because they are going to stop giving out licenses for it soon. Then force everyone to use Endpoint protection aka productivity inhibitor..... It will work without the license but will not download any new updates when it expires.
http://reviews.cnet.com/software/sophos-anti-virus-3/4505-3513_7-21274729.html
http://www.sophos.com/
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http://reviews.cnet.com/software/sophos-anti-virus-3/4505-3513_7-21274729.html
http://www.sophos.com/
Casey
Anyone who thinks the NAV/SAV line of products should be used needs to drop over into the "Symantec" Zone and help solve the 161 Open Questions sitting there.
A totally unacceptable line of products, and has been for about 8-9 years. They have completely missed the boat on a whole string of malware outbreaks, starting with Melissa in about 1999.
Whoever recommended AVG (up above) deserves some points on this question. Very strong product, easily managed for a network this size, and the price will be right.
A totally unacceptable line of products, and has been for about 8-9 years. They have completely missed the boat on a whole string of malware outbreaks, starting with Melissa in about 1999.
Whoever recommended AVG (up above) deserves some points on this question. Very strong product, easily managed for a network this size, and the price will be right.
SAV is not without it's problems. I think that it's one of those products that you either love or hate. I actually fall into both camps depending on what day it is :).
Now that Endpoint is out that is where they are going and they may stop selling licenses for the old product, but that doesn't mean that support will go away. I checked on a Symantec forum and one person commented that tech support had told him that the current version of 10.x will continue to be supported until 2010.
I've been interested in something "better" for my network (450 nodes), but have never really run into anything that seemed any better that would make me go through the hassle of converting. However the asker only has 50 nodes which would be easier to do.
Now that Endpoint is out that is where they are going and they may stop selling licenses for the old product, but that doesn't mean that support will go away. I checked on a Symantec forum and one person commented that tech support had told him that the current version of 10.x will continue to be supported until 2010.
I've been interested in something "better" for my network (450 nodes), but have never really run into anything that seemed any better that would make me go through the hassle of converting. However the asker only has 50 nodes which would be easier to do.
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The reason I started on this is I read on Symanted that Corp 10 will not longer have virus updates available starting 8/08. If I am wrong please tell me. Tech support is useless if I can not longer get updates.
Are you talking about updates to the program or signature updates? I still get signature updates for the few machines that are still running 7.6.
I assume what the author is talking about their license with Symantec is due to expire on 8/08. The updates for Norton Antivirus will still be available, but the Norton software installed on the author's network will not be legally licensed to run any more.
Hackitx, as you can see above, there is a wide variety of recommendations for security software - you are going to have to evaluate each one and decide which one you want to go for. AVG, Sophos, Nod32, Trend Micro... you name it, they've all been recommended.
My recommendation's still with AVG as per my first post.
-tigermatt
Hackitx, as you can see above, there is a wide variety of recommendations for security software - you are going to have to evaluate each one and decide which one you want to go for. AVG, Sophos, Nod32, Trend Micro... you name it, they've all been recommended.
My recommendation's still with AVG as per my first post.
-tigermatt
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Sorry guys, I thought I read it was signiture update where being discontinued.
I wouldn't have thought so - since the Symantec products are unfortunately a widely used AV - but I wouldn't run it past them.
For the asker as well as others with a question about SAV. I just spoke with someone in the sales area at Symantec. They are still supporting and selling new licenses for SAV Corporate edition 10.x. According to this salesman, you can still continue to use your product legally and you will continue to be able to get updates...in fact they are still selling new subscriptions to the product. End of support on this currently is indefinite and he said that I should be able to continue to have full support through sometime in 2009.
So, I'm not sure that I would go out and buy SAV corporate 10.x if you don't already own it, but I know that I'm keeping what I have and will examine EP 11 as well as other solutions when the appropriate time comes....
And we did keep renewing our licenses with Symantec over the years and although I was legally able to go to 8 and 9 we did contnue to use 7.6, until we started to move to 10 and I was able to get signature updates and the like, although it I would have had a technical support question getting that support would have been iffy.
So, I'm not sure that I would go out and buy SAV corporate 10.x if you don't already own it, but I know that I'm keeping what I have and will examine EP 11 as well as other solutions when the appropriate time comes....
And we did keep renewing our licenses with Symantec over the years and although I was legally able to go to 8 and 9 we did contnue to use 7.6, until we started to move to 10 and I was able to get signature updates and the like, although it I would have had a technical support question getting that support would have been iffy.
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Interesting, thanks.