Re: Enterprise AV

[Tim Syratt <tims () syratt com>]

Hi jason,

I asked this question to a few people only recently..

An organisation I work for uses Sophos, its a great product and very
reliable. (although msblaster did catch us out, but they had a virus
definition 1 hr after I alerted them)

The trouble with SOphos is that its VERY expensive if you want the
enterprise solution which will update your virus def's for you, without
having to download and roll them out.

The last network I built will be going with Norton Antivirus, because I
can just subscribe to the auto updates and have it update for me, for
about $300.00AUD (5 users).  One person I spoke to said that it activly
stopped a few scripts running (IE exploits), which Sophos doesn't appear
to do.

HTH!

Regs,
Tim

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 jburzenski () americanhm com wrote:

> Does anyone have any recent experience deploying one of the major AV tools
> (McAfee ePO, Symatec Enterprise Manager, SOPHOS SAV, or other?) to an
> enterprise?  I am currently evaluating several of these products and would
> like to hear how others are managing.
>
> In particular I am concerned with, ease of deployment, usefulness of 'out of
> box' reporting, multi-platform support (winA-winZ only), unexpected
> problems, and of course costs.  Any experience or words of advice would be
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason Burzenski
>
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