RE: recommendations for centrally managed corporate antivirus solution

["Steve Anderson" <Steve.Anderson () bipsolutions com>]

We're using Sophos here. You need somewhere to install the EM-Library,
but that's not a massive deal, as we, until recently, were running it on
windows 2000, on a 800MHZ box. Just needs disk space for all that you've
downloaded.

Alerting is easy to set up, you can set the poll schedule on the client,
and have a set of clients that will first try your internal server, then
sophos's own, for updates. Handy for laptop users, to keep them up to
date while they're out the office.




Steve Anderson.

-----Original Message-----
From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com]
On Behalf Of Mason, Samuel
Sent: 14 February 2008 22:19
To: illuminaeti () gmail com
Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: RE: recommendations for centrally managed corporate antivirus
solution

We recently changed from McAfee to ESET's NOD32. I highly recommend it.
Management and alerting is good and the client itself is pretty small
and quick.

Samuel Mason CISSP, GCFA

-----Original Message-----
From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com]
On Behalf Of Mike Hale
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 12:20 PM
To: illuminaeti () gmail com
Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: recommendations for centrally managed corporate antivirus
solution

We just rolled out TrendMicro at my last company.

It worked fairly well.

On 14 Feb 2008 15:38:41 -0000, illuminaeti () gmail com
<illuminaeti () gmail com> wrote:
> Hi list
>
>
> On the different networks I manage, I've been using Symantec corporate
since version 7. I've never had any major issues with it until now.
> Version 11, now called "Symantec endpoint Protection" requires IIS and
either MS SQL or the symantec embedded database. I installed a copy on a
test server and it just about crippled it. Network access from clients
was incredibly slow and processor use was hitting %100. I've heard the
same comments from a collegue who installed it on a new server at the
customer's request. The file server was virtually unusable even before
the client was installed on the workstation. Also the new GUI is just
plain awful.


>  I don't have the time or resources to tweak settings to get better
performance out of the AV.
>  I've heard good things about NOD32, Sophos and Kaspersky.  I've
started looking around and of course, every website I visit tells me the
software they sell is the best in the universe.
> So, looking for real answers from real users, I thought I'd ask you
all about your experience, positive or negative, with various corporate
antivirus software.
> Thanks in advance.


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