Re: Help me choose antivirus software

["Sean Crawford" <sean01 () accnet com au>]

Yup....
www.nod32.com
It's the best about IMHO.........
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Hillier" <securityfocus () mastermindtoys com>
To: <security-basics () securityfocus com>
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 6:34 AM
Subject: Help me choose antivirus software


> I administer a small (30-50 hosts) network with 4 servers -- all of
> which are either NetWare or Slackware Linux.
>
> We had been using Symantec AntiVirus Coporate Edition, but I'm a few
> revisions behind and the cost to update would be the same as purchasing
> a brand new package.
>
> Right now the SAV client runs on every workstation (all of which are
> running Windows) and on one NetWare server to act as the centralised
> administration server.
>
> I haven't been thrilled with the detection engine of SAV -- I feel it's
> bloated and doesn't always catch everything. We had an infection a while
> ago that simply slipped right by SAV. However, I don't think I can do
> without a centralised administration console. It has made my job a lot
> easier to be able to configure all the clients at once, lock them out of
> changing any settings and then forget about it.
>
> I'm now looking for an antivirus product and I'm not sure that I should
> necessarily stick with SAV. My requirements are:
>
> - centralised administration
> - small memory footprint
> - NO WINDOWS SERVERS: I don't have any and I don't intend on setting
> one up just to use as an antivirus admin centre so that I can reboot it
> every few weeks
>
> Anybody have any suggestions?
>
>
>
> --
>
> Steve Hillier, B.Sc.
>
>
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