FWIW Version 8 of AVG seems to have solved the resource problem you sometimes got with 7. But it's a good point - we have McAfee on the firewall, and a combination of Kaspersky and BitDefender in addition on the SMTP feed. I'd actually incline to say that the single best thing you can do for an SMB is get anti-spyware on the firewall - we have far more problems with Spyware on sites without it than we do with actual viruses. Though of course you could argue that Spyware is really just virtualised virusJ. Nick From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Doug Rooney Sent: 10 April 2008 18:45 To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Best Antivirus software 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<mailto: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. [cid:image001.jpg@01C89BB3.EABDFCF0] Matthew Shrewsbury Director of Information Technology Coscan Homes, LLC 5555 Anglers Avenue, Suite 1 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312 MShrewsbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.coscanhomes.com<http://www.coscanhomes.com> Phone: 954-620-1052 Fax: (954)-620-1001 This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, contains PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION intended only for the use of the addressee(s) named herein. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me at 954-620-1052 and permanently delete the original, including any attachments thereto, and any copy or printout thereof. ________________________________ 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. ________________________________ 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, [cid:image001.jpg@01C89BB3.EABDFCF0] Matthew Shrewsbury Director of Information Technology Coscan Homes, LLC 5555 Anglers Avenue, Suite 1 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312 MShrewsbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.coscanhomes.com<http://www.coscanhomes.com> Phone: 954-620-1052 Fax: (954)-620-1001 This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, contains PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION intended only for the use of the addressee(s) named herein. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me at 954-620-1052 and permanently delete the original, including any attachments thereto, and any copy or printout thereof.