[THIN] Re: OT: Best Antivirus software
- From: "Berny Stapleton" <berny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 12:21:47 +0100
Server Protect was retired some time ago.
At the end of the day, whether you use housecall, OfficeScan or anything
else, it's all still the same scan engine and pattern file, it's just the UI
that they wrap around it.
Berny
On 09/04/2008, Minero, Hector B CIV NSWCDD, K55 <hector.minero@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
> What is the difference between Trend SMB and OfficeScan. Do they both
> work on Citrix servers?
> I'm still using Server Protect, but I don't see in their products page
> anymore. Has it been retired?
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> *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,
>
>
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