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Hello and thank you for taking the time out to read my question. <br />
Your response is much appreciated. <br />
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I have a network at home. More to serve as a learning/testing ground. <br />
2011 sbs essentials and a few Win7, one Vista, one XP machine running a top of VMware ESXi 4.1. <br />
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At work we typically use Vipre as a solution for Anti-Virus. Does a great job. <br />
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I'm not willing to spend the money for to get Vipre on my personal network.<br />
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Does anyone know of any half descent/ good free managed (server/client) antivirus solution such as Vipre? Whereas there is one central console to managed all the deployed agents?<br />
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Many thanks in advance.... 
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Hello and thank you for taking the time out to read my question. 
Your response is much appreciated. 

I have a network at home. More to serve as a learning/testing ground. 
2011 sbs essentials and a few Win7, one Vista, one XP machine running a top of VMware ESXi 4.1. 

At work we typically use Vipre as a solution for Anti-Virus. Does a great job. 

I'm not willing to spend the money for to get Vipre on my personal network.

Does anyone know of any half descent/ good free managed (server/client) antivirus solution such as Vipre? Whereas there is one central console to managed all the deployed agents?

Many thanks in advance.... 

Freeware Managed Anti-Virus solution.

Anti-virus software was originally developed to detect and remove computer viruses. However, with the proliferation of other kinds of malware, antivirus software started to provide protection from other computer threats. In particular, modern antivirus software can protect from malicious browser helper objects (BHOs), browser hijackers, ransomware, keyloggers, backdoors, rootkits, trojan horses, worms, malicious layered service providers (LSPs), dialers, fraud tools, adware and spyware. Some products also include protection from other computer threats, such as infected and malicious URLs, spam, scam and phishing attacks, online identity theft (privacy), online banking attacks, social engineering techniques, Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), botnets and DDoS attacks.