Looking for enterprise antivirus advice 1

[kmcferrin]

Hello all, I didn't see a general AV forum so I thought I'd ask this here. What do you guys recommend for an enterprise antivirus solution and why? Currently we have McAfee Enterprise 7.0 with EPO and Groupshield for Exchange. It seems to work well, but we're at the point where we need to renew our current agreement and I'm interested in the other alternatives. I will say that I was a little put off with an issue that McAfee had this past year that caused STORE.EXE to go to 100% utilization on my Exchange boxes.

I haven't used Norton's corporate edition for 5 or 6 years, but I have used it at home for several years and generally like it. They also have some nice extras in their Enterprise edition that I am interested in (like their web proxy, Brightmail plugins, etc).

I haven't used Trend before and don't know what they have to offer.

Features that I am looking for:

1. Something that offers a high level of AV protection, i.e., a high detection rate.

2. Something that has centralized management and deployment capability for both program and definition updates, but requires minimal managment.

3. Something that is updated regularly, at least once a week.

4. Something that offers email protection on Exchange 2000.

5. Any extra included features that sweeten the deal.

I generally know what's out there, but what I'm looking for is opinions on what you think works best and why. Anyone?

 

[aquias]

Hey! I'm glad I'm not the only one that got my rear kicked by that bug!!!

 

[de1458]

it looks we can start another thread,
I guess stopping spyware, virus, and such at the gateway rather than being a cleanup crew would make our lifes easier, but this assume that the gateway product actaully up to its task.

 

[kmcferrin]

Thanks for the assistance guys. I've got an eval copy of Symantec Enterprise running. So far so good.

 

[JFBouchard]

Hi, Our network is 500 servers and 15000 workstations.

We use Inoculate-it (CA) works very well and easy to manage in a corporate environment.

You should test it to see if it meets your requirements.

Peace!

Jeff Bouchard
admin@messf.gouv.qc.ca

 

[kmcferrin]

I'm also testing an eval of Trend Micro's Enterprise Neatsuite. So far I like it pretty well. It also includes a couple of gateway products (pertinent to de1458's comment about stopping the bugs at the perimeter). Cisco also relies pretty heavily on Trend for some of their newer 'self-defending network' initiatives like NAC and such. Looks like a pretty good product, we're probably going to go with it.