Hey guys, our IT guy here is researching centrally managed corporate antivirus options. We have a Windows 2003 domain server along with Exchange 2003, plus a few other Windows 2000 and NT4 servers. We also have over 100 Windows 2000/XP workstations. Currently we're using individual McAfee 8 installations on each workstation.

The problem is we're having issues getting trial versions for some of these corporate products. Does anyone have any input on the installation, management, system resource usage, and any other input on any centrally managed antivirus products such as Symantec Corporate 10 (with antispyware), AVG, McAfee, etc.?

 

Why are you doing his job for him - did he promise to do the reach around next time if you helped him out with this?

Next thing we know you are going to start asking if Sams Club sells the software because you do not have a membership to Costco...

 

He did promise teh gaysecks, but also cause I'm his friend.

 

one of the places i worked kept having problems with guys who worked in the field coming back to work and plugging into the network on their laptops and infecting the server, then from the server it would spread to workstations at random throughout the company...
they upgraded the server to CA (Computer Associates) eTrust Innoculate(sp?). it rocked!

slimline, cus it took up very little system memory, updated daily from the server, then the workstations would check for updates locally on the server...really nice product...way better than the mcafee crap they had before...
the CA software would do something like identify the infected lappy and isolate it so it could not infect the server...then the lappy would be forced to update before access to the network would be granted...or something like that....either way, it pinpointed the specific users and cured the problems...

 

symantec corp AV works pretty well.. all centrally controlled

I am not sure how they work with a demo versions, but I am sure the sales dept would bend over backwards for a big company

 

er.. thats what I use at home too ... dont ask ..

 

Trend Micro A/V, hands down, especially for Exchange. I would recommend a different package on the desktop. We use Computer Associates e-Trust anti-virus. Consider a third package on your file server(s). We're using Microsoft's Anti-virus (beta).

SunBelt Software's IHateSpam on Exchange and CounterSpy Enterprise are good, too.

 

Our company uses Symantec Corporate as well.

 

got it also. we're actually given copies of it since we may need to work from home occasionally.

 

most smart companies will do this for their employees

clean home = clean laptops

 

are your r00t are belong to me

 

TrendMicro of McAfee.

 

We've used Symantec Anti-Virus Corporate edition here since version 6.0 or 7.0, and we're now on 10.0.

It's pretty good software. Be warned however, it takes a lot of processing power with all the anti-spyware service(s) running. We're currently in the process of transitioning over our Exchange data information to a new server (Server 2003 64-bit dual opteron) from our old server (Win2k 32-bit quad P3 500s) because it can't handle the Symantec Anti-Virus 10.0 with everything enabled (anti-spyware, etc)

 

Eek, I think our current server is a dual 2 or 3 Ghz Xeon, so it sounds like it would handle Symantec no prob.

Thanks for the input guys! I <3 teh SRIC!

 

Why do you have spyware scanning enabled on a fileserver? and are you running an exclusions on your databases or database directories ?