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Brad Griffin wrote:

I am yet to come across a 'large' company or enterprise that uses separate 
brand av applications for desktop and server solutions. It makes economic 
and logistic sense to use one vendor for your av solution that is deployed 
at different levels (or layers if you prefer that terminology). About the 
only people I've seen use different antivirus products in one environment 
are home users or small businesses that misinterpret 'layers of defence' in 
an anti-virus context to mean 'different brands of defence'. Considering 
that many major av co's products are cross platform nowadays, I doubt many 
companies will continue using separate brand products in a mixed OS 
environment for much longer either.

Reply:

The last two companies I have worked for, one a Fortune 500 company, the 
other a smallish science company, both use multiple products.

One uses Symantec on the Windows servers and McAfee on the Windows 
workstations and Clam on the Linux servers and workstations.

The other uses Clam on its Linux servers and Panda on its Windows servers 
and workstations.

Of course, that hasn't completely stopped virus outbreaks, just because 
there's no way that new definitions can be rolled out quickly enough. As you 
might expect, Windows laptops were the main culprits. But I have seen Linux 
viruses and breakins as well as Windows hacks too. And please don't say that 
the IT wasn't doing its job. As long as you have an internet presence you 
are a target, and none of the products are 100% secure ... Cisco anyone?

So there you go. My two Euros worth.

Does anyone remember the AV scanner that came with MS-DOS6? Haha

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