Antivirus solutions for Citrix

[MDonato]

What are everyone's experiences with Norton Corporate Ed. versus McAfee 4.5 in a Win2K/MetaFrame1.8 environment?

Thanks
Michael A. Dontato MCNE, MCSE, CCA
mdonato@site-technologies.com

http://www.site-technologies.com

 

[CitrixEngineer]

Norton has been a bit of a nightmare, due to its insistence on scanning %systemroot% for *EACH* user, and there have been a variety of issues with McCaffee.

Best bet is not to put anti-virus software on a terminal server at all. This is because all a T/S does is serve applications.

In an idal world, no unscanned data would make it onto the T/S in the first place, with Anti-virus solutions on the Exchange server, proxy server, fileservers and client machines with floppy disks.

Many Citrix admins who do protect their T/S use Trends micro protect solution -

http://www.antivirus.com.

Any anti-virus solution will add a memory/CPU overhead, so best install it in your test environment first and measure the extra requirements for your production servers.

Good luck!

 

[spotnruby]

We use InnoculateIT and have seen good results from doing so.

 

[CitrixEngineer]

I have heard that Innoculate is good, but I've never used it. Good feedback, spotnruby