Looking for new AntiVirus

[snootalope]

We're a smaller shop, 20 or so servers, a dozen desktop pc's, and about 100 dumb terminals. 90% of our users use these dumber terminals to connect to a terminal server/citrix server.

We use Exchange 2003 SP2 and all the servers are running Windows 2003 SP2. All the desktops are XP.

At the moment, we use Etrust from CA v7.1. It's been great at protecting Exchange, but let me down bigtime about three years ago when it let a trojan spread through our network. not fun..

I'm considering a new product (don't even mention symantec, no way in **** is that going anywhere close to our network).

Anyone care to share what they're using on a similar network setup? Opinions? Recommendations?

Something that covers both servers, desktops, and exchange preferably.

I think I'm most interested in Trend Micro's applications at the moment. We use their Interscan Web Security Suite as an internet proxy and it does a fantastic job of filtering out junk from our users internet traffic.

Thanks for any info or advice!

 

[LWComputingMVP]

I've always had good experiences with McAfee. The Enterprise version - the home version has gotten so bloated it's not funny.

The Enterprise version has a product you can get called GroupShield which protects Exchange and we were quite pleased with at the last large company I worked at.

-Lee

Those who ask why, learn

http://www.lwcomputing.com

 

[2ffat]

We've used McAfee, CA, and Sophos.

CA 7.x was OK but the new version didn't work for us. Too much overhead.

Sophos is great but you pay for what you get. In other words, it's a tad pricey.

We currently use McAfee Enterprise. It seems to work pretty well.



James P. Cottingham
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[pagy]

I'm a fan of NOD32

Paul
MCSE 2003
MCTS:Active Directory
MCTS:Network Infrastructure
MCTS:Applications Infrastructure

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
Scott Adams

 

[FloDiggs]

I've used Symantec, and Trend. I know you don't like Symantec, so I will focus on Trend. We dropped it in favor of Symantec for a few reasons. First, Trend, when we dropped them, did not have a 64 bit version of ServerProtect available. We were forced to install the OfficeScan client on those servers until we migrated to Symantec. The second issue was poor support. At one point, I was having a problem with the attachment stripping features of ScanMail. When I called Trend, the support reps solution was to disable the feature. It took me a moment to convince the guy that turning off a feature is not a solution. I think we also had issues getting support on the weekend during a maintenance window. I don't remember if that was because of the maintenance package we purchased, or if it wasn't offered. The third thing we didn't like was the numerous consoles you had to use to manage all the products. In addition to that, I found the consoles counter intuitive.

I have heard good things about nod32, but I have not used it myself yet. It is supposed to be very thin, and non-resource intensive. I have also read some good reviews about eEye.

 

[58sniper]

Forefront on Exchange & SharePoint. We use Symantec on probably a good 100,000 seats. McAfee on the rest.

Pat Richard
Microsoft Exchange MVP
Contributing author Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: The Complete Reference

 

[akalinowski]

NOD32 is great. F-Secure is too.

i'm rolling out F-Secure to all my clients, but i use NOD32 at home, its smaller footprint lets my machine run faster.

akalinowski

http://www.nofear.com

MCSE 2000, A+, N+, LCP, CNE

 

[mofusjtf]

I use Trend Micro's Client Server Messaging Suite for SMB. It works great!

 

[cajuntank]

I've had good results and success out of AVG. Have it for about 2000 nodes and 30 servers.

 

[theravager]

Used a fair few products in large environments to small. The only product i would recommend NOT to use is Mcafee on servers, on clients its not a bad product.Its performance is really ordinary if you push a fair bit of data through you file servers. Its also causes so many replication issues on DCs that its just not funny even after Mcafee engineers setting it up.

Symantec is also a fairly poor choice these days due to bloatware and being hard on resources.

Trend is a nice suite for clients very easy to admin and deploy etc.

I'd strongly recommend a different server product to whatever you use on your clients as well.

Other then that price up your preferred options and use the different manufactures to cut a good deal against one another.

 

[snootalope]

Just want to report back on this.. We decided to stay with CA and it's ETrust. Now using the latest version 8.1 - it's been excellent so far. The central management is so easy and the policy configuration and assignment is much improved.

I've ran a number of test so far with it and it's passed all of them to this point. Very satisfied.

 

[tcstone]

It's funny no one mentioned Kaspersky. NOD32 is also very good. Both Kaspersky and NOD32 are fairly light on system resources. Both products also give you pretty good protection.

 

[snootalope]

I ran a demo of NOD32 for a while, the protection was awesome. It picked up anything and everything that wasn't supposed to be there.. However, the central management of it really didn't impress me.