Which Antivirus for Exchange?

[AllUserNamesAreTaken]

Hi all,

I'm about to purchase an Antivirus for my new Exchange server. I only have one Exchange server, and this is the first.

I run Symantec on all other servers, seems to be OK, but read a lot about others that seem to be better than Symantec.

Anyone got any input?

 

[DigitalWreck]

I Use a product called Sophos PureMessage.

Deals well with viruses and spam and has addition features such as the ability to add a disclaimer to emails without all the hassle. No problems so far!

 

[AllUserNamesAreTaken]

I've got winproxy already for scanning, and MIMEsweeper for detecting spam. I was after purely antivirus and not sophos. A friend uses Sophos business edition and he says pushing updates out of it to other servers is real hassle.

Thanks for your input anyhow, much appreciated.

 

[58sniper]

Sybari Antigen

http://www.sybari.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?Alias=Rainbow&TabId=3345&Lang=en-US

multiple engines from different vendors. Works great.

Pat Richard, MCSE(2) MCSA:Messaging, CNA(2)

 

[jpm121]

I run Symantec for AV and spam on Exchange, and it does a good job. It doesn't, however, integrate much with the tools you're used to with the Symantec Corporate Anti-virus edition. They're basically standalone products.

 

[zaccaz]

echo to jpm121, i also use sav for exchange, so far so good

 

[AllUserNamesAreTaken]

Alright. Well I'm going to try the Sybari Antigen, as it's recommended by Microsoft, but depending on cost and implications etc, we'll see how I go on from there.

Thanks for the input upto now.

 

[skialta]

I use Symantec Mail Security for Exchange but a ton of people have very good success with Trend.

 

[AllUserNamesAreTaken]

Great, keep the responses coming.. much appreciated.

 

[rye8261]

Another vote for Symantec Mail Security for Exchange here.

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[crobin1]

Let me second Antigen from Sybari (bought last year by Microsoft). At my previous job we used it for several years and never had a virus slip past. I changed jobs in November 2004 and at the new place they were using Symantec's Mail Security. Between Novemer and July 2005 we had 3 different e-mail viruses come in because Symantec didn't update their signatures quickly enough. We switched to Antigen when the Symantec license expired and haven't had a problem since.

 

[N0ktar]

We're using Trend Micro Client Server Messaging Security and it's working great. It's a lot easier to manage and deploy than the Symantec products we've used in the past and the cost savings are great.

 

[fs483]

58Sniper and crobin1 :

I've installed Sybari Antigen 8.0 and 9.0 at nearly all my customer locations but I recently noticed it is letting through a lot of spam. We get a lot of those Trader Alert emails which is basically a bogus header with an image (usually pink) that contains info about trader alert. I've contacted Sybari and mail-filters.com (they are the ones that supply the anti-spam engines to Sybari) and they said they are working on it (for the past 2 months) ! Are you having these problems ? I've resorted to manually keying in subject headers to block for now which helps but EXTREMELY time consuming. I also have the Spam Manager 2.0 option. I've always recommended Sybari to all my clients but I'm starting to think twice. I do agree that virus scanning part works very well. I've never seen a virus get through. I heard Sybari is comming out with v.10 later this year which includes a new virus engine from MS. Free upgrade apparently !