Best (Subjective) Virus Program

[Databaseguy]

We're getiing ready to purchase & institute server based virus protection here. I;ve pretty much narrowed my choice down to Norton Anti-virus Coporate Edition 7.5 , Inoculate IT 6.0 Advanced Edition, or Office Scan Corporate Edition 3.54.

Would any of you care to sway the decision one way or the other ??? Any war stories, horror stories ??? Tyrone Lumley
augerinn@gte.net

http://server105.hypermart.net/databaseguy

 

[jrjuiliano]

Hi,

We're running Norton AntiVirus CE right now, and for the most part it works great. Just a note, version 7.6 is out now, and from what I and some others can tell the version upgrade is mostly XP compatibility.

The only problems I have with our setup is that some clients don't get updates when they are supposed to. This may be a problem with some other software we are running. Also, I haven't been able to get the virus definitions updated through the network only (I only have less than 20 clients and, for now, they can all connect through Live Update).

Another problem deals with Windows 2000 servers. For some reason I was having problems with Stop errors like MULTIPLE_IRP_COMPLETE_REQUESTS coming up in the morning when people were logging in. I fixed that for now by taking the AV server and putting it on other computers to lessen the load.

The remote installation feature is good, as long as you have something other than Windows 9x. Having an NT client allows you to install the client software from the main server.

Other than that it is very predictable and useful.

HTH J.R. Juiliano
Information Systems Specialist
Tri-City Emergency Medical Group

 

[Databaseguy]

Thx Jr.

So what you are saying is the new signatures are not pushed from the server to the clients ??? That is a functionality I would really like to have, although I too only have about 25 workstations (for now) Tyrone Lumley
augerinn@gte.net

http://server105.hypermart.net/databaseguy

 

[jrjuiliano]

Hey,

Pushing sigs to the clients using the network IS an option; I just haven't got it to work yet, because of lot of my workstations have Zone Alarm Pro on them until we get a firewall set up and paid for. Once we have the firewall in place I'm sure it will work like a charm with an unhindered internal network.

You would have a server with the Live Update Administrator, where only your primary server would connect to the Internet and get product updates and virus definitions, and the parent servers would get their updates from the primary server. The clients would get the updates from the server you assigned them to. There are actually three different methods for definition delivery; Symantec's website would have more information on that.

I was talking about the inability to do something like "update virus definitions now" from the remote console, instead of going to each workstation when one or two were behind the curve on getting their virus defs. J.R. Juiliano
Information Systems Specialist
Tri-City Emergency Medical Group

 

[polymath5]

Anybody using Panda Global Virus Protection? I've been thinking about using it to replace NAVCE. It scans at a much lower level, 2 & 3, compared to NAV at level 7. Therefore it can read/scan HTML pages, something NAV can't do.

 

[Kjonnnn]

We're using the Nortons Corporate Edition and it seems pretty good.

My computer is the BDC, and so I can installed the software on NT machines from my desk. I cant push it out to W95 machines, but I can install it locally and have my machine managed the updates. Ill get messages and such of who got a virus. I can turn off the messages that they get (cause they freak out when they get a virus message). But so far its seems to be great. No problem gettn updates.

 

[CMASPE]

Just my 2 cents worth but a few weeks back at a CISCO security seminar they were recommending Inoculate. I got a trial copy and I love it. I have seen it catch more than the NAV on my other users PC's.

 

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[SteveTheGeek]

We're using CAI's InoculateIT. Great, except #1 it's default setting is "Notify, no action" (meaning it logs that it found a virus, but doesn't cure/delete/rename the file) and #2 6.0 Exchange Agent can't do email notification to the virus sender or the network admin (and 4.53 could).
-Steve

 

[dsrlalex]

I'm currently doing a roll-out on NAVCE 7.6 for over 2000+ desktop users and my 2 cents for this product is:

1. Product scalability is very good.
2. The AMS features is good as compared to some other vendors.

However, if you are only planning to roll-out NAV for the rest of your clients in the future. There is a major set-back, in which the current AV program (other than NAV) residing in the desktops and servers need to be uninstalled manually first (And I mean, each and every hosts), before rolling NAVCE out.

Furthermore, if you intend to change AV vendor in the future, NAVCE 7.6 DOES NOT support remote uninstallation, which you will end up doing the above again.

You might want to look into McAfee ePO 2.5 or Trend Micro OfficeScan 5.0 (which will be released end of this year for XP and new features support)

I hope this may help
Alex

 

[Sulaco]

We're getting ready to roll out Trend Micro throughout the entire organization. We've been running McAfee all along, had some trouble (see the thread here, our problems mirror what's there...) We'll be using SMS to push to the '95 clients, the rest with Trend utility. We'll see how it goes... They say Trend's pretty good, especially with mail servers, exchange 5.5... Yet to be seen on the file/print and desktop...

 

[bigfoot]

Inoculate is now called my e-trust, and that's what I use at home.

At work we use Panda Corporate. It just saved us from kletz.I (today)

 

[tsessoms51]

I've been involved with AV for 20+ years, I found the Trend Micro offerings - Office Scan for desktops, ServerProtect for servers and gateways, and Control Manager to manage it all works perfectly. Remote deployments, remote management, very good realtime reporting. We deployed in a global environment, 250+ Netware Servers, 2000+ Windows servers, 100+ Exchange servers, next 12 months 30,000+ workstations. Support is Great, problems few, but fixed quickly.