[THIN] Re: OT: Best Antivirus software
- From: "Evan Mann" <emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 11:27:07 -0400
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
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