[THIN] Re: OT: Best Antivirus software
- From: "Doug Rooney" <Doug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:44:45 -0700
We use Symantec Enterprise Edition for our servers and workstations, we use
Kaspersky for our firewall and routers and some users have Zone Alarm Pro on
their workstations. This works well for use, we tried McAfee but got way too
many false positives so we dumped it, we also tested AVG but got the same
results as Berny so we dumped that as well. We try to keep SAV lean and it is
fine.
Thank You
-Doug Rooney
Sonoma Tilemakers
IT Systems Administrator
7750 Bell Rd.
Windsor Ca, 95492
(707) 837-8177 X11
(707) 837-9472 FAX
it@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Nick Smith
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 9:07 AM
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Best Antivirus software
We do mainly SMB stuff and having moved to McAfee because Symantec stunk, we've
spend the last two years migrating away from it. Too fiddly for the amount of
time out clients are willing to pay for.
We like AVG for the clients and servers, a couple of hoops to jump through for
the TSes, but well documented. Also it's only £20 sterling for a 2 year
licence, which is v. attractive to SMBs. Deployment fairly straightforward.
Nick
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Matthew Shrewsbury
Sent: 08 April 2008 20:28
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Best Antivirus software
I don't have a huge Internet connection so I'm going to stay away from anything
ASP based. Thanks very much for the detail information.
Matthew Shrewsbury
Director of Information Technology
Coscan Homes, LLC
5555 Anglers Avenue, Suite 1
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312
MShrewsbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.coscanhomes.com
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Evan Mann
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 11:27 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Best Antivirus software
I've been using Trend SMB for a year at one location and it's a pretty good
product. I'm more acustom to Enterprise level A/V products from my day-to-day
experience so SMB products rub me the wrong way a little. They over-simply too
much IMO, but that inpart because the idea with SMB is for things to be easy to
manage. But I still like more control then less, even in SMB environments I
manage. That being said, it's a really good product. The antispyware
protection lacks a little in my opinion.
I'm a fan of McAfee products, but there is a lot of management to use them.
McAfee has recently retired their SMB product in favor of McAfee Total
Protection Service and Protection Service Advanced. It's based off McAfee ASaP
technology which used to be home desktop use only. It's a hosted solution.
You install the AV/Spyware client on the desktop and it communicates over the
internet (SSL I believe) to the hosted server where you centrally manage
everything. I equate it to McAfee taking ePO 4.0, and hosting it for you. I
did a short demo and it was pretty nice. It's something McAfee sells to small
business and enterprise (it can scale to 10k seats apparently). Might be worth
looking into. I may switch one site of Trend SMB over to this solution when
their renewal comes later this year.
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Matthew Shrewsbury
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 8:25 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] OT: Best Antivirus software
Any recommendations on the best antivirus software to run in a small business
for servers, workstations, and Citrix. Needs to be easily deployable and
manageable in a LAN/WAN environment as we don't have any type of software
deployment tools. Should have a light footprint as some of our hardware is old.
Ideally needs to have Sharepoint and Exchange store scanning capability.
Anyone using Microsoft Forefront? We are a Microsoft/Citrix shop so when
possible we stick with the Microsoft offering in order to keep TCO down.
However I don't want to pass up a better solution and I'd like a solution that
is not entirely signature based.
Thanks for any suggestions or recommendations,
Matthew Shrewsbury
Director of Information Technology
Coscan Homes, LLC
5555 Anglers Avenue, Suite 1
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312
MShrewsbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.coscanhomes.com
Phone: 954-620-1052
Fax: (954)-620-1001
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