Norton on NT

[soundguy]

Hello,

I wish to install Norton Antivirus 2000 onto our NT4 Servers.

Would this have a serious impact on performance?
Are there any other recommendations...

Has anybody ever done this before?

Thanks In advance

 

[rtaylor]

In my opinion Norton is about the worst program you can install on anything. Why not go with a professional program like InoculatIt. If you read posts here, you will see various accounts of system failures which magically disappear after removing Norton from the equation. When I started at this company, they were using Norton and had poor performance and frequent server downtime. I uninstalled Norton and put an eval of InoculatIT on the servers and they haven't crashed since.

But, that's my opinion!

 

[ensorg]

I have inoculatIT on all my servers, I find it a great program, no problems what so ever.

Personally the only norton product that i would go near is ghost

 

[hchman]

I disagree with rtaylor. I have Norton Anti-virus Corporate addition installed on my server a year ago and it is great. No problems and it has caught numerous viruses. Also I am able to do remote installs on NT and 2000 workstations which have virus definitions updated weekly from the server.

 

[Maruis]

I aggree with Hchman...

I run or tested Inoculatit and had problems all over. It did not get virusses and so on.

Since then installed Norton Coporate edtion and its been plain sailing since then. I must admit it will take some resources but then again what virus program does'nt? Hope this Helps

Maruis
"I sleep at home not on my Job!"

 

[beevis]

We also use Norton on NT and have never had a crash. We had to do some tweaking to get the live update to update, but that was us being behind a proxy server.
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[polymath5]

I have NAV CE running at several sites. Very, very few problems with it. Admin is a snap.

 

[ensorg]

PRiley

As you can see this is why you should test out different software to find out what is best for your scenario.
Norton is a decent product but I have had problems using it. It is, like every other software product in the world, not perfect.
By posting here you are getting opinions, which is great, but no substitute for testing. Maybe Norton will run brilliantly on your system and cause you no problems or maybe the opposite will true.

All i can say is test before you go live.

 

[NetManRob]

I have been running Norton CE for a couple of years, but am now testing eTrust (InnoculateIT) because of numerous problems with Norton. So far so good with eTrust, it is working well, and far less annoying to administer than Norton.

Good luck,

Rob

 

[JC2002]

Norton's Corporate Edition (not 2000). Corporate Edition is for servers and has caught everything, not given me the first problem.