[THIN] Re: The Anti-Virus Question (again!)
- From: "Jay Moock" <jmoock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:52:26 -0400
We used to run Trend, which ran OK but kept letting things through and
telling us we had infections after the fact, so we've switched to
Sophos. So far so good. Seems a tad memory hungry though.
One test that I found rather revealing while reviewing various products
was to go to www.antispyware.com and see how the AV reacted when I
attempted to download and install this piece of crap. Some of the real
big names, even with their supposed antispyware pieces enabled, would
let this thing right through. Only the products that prevented
installation with little or no configuration tweaking were seriously
considered by us (we didn't want to spend an inordinate amount of time
trying to make something work, we wanted a product that would do what it
should do right out of the box). Of the products that passed this test,
Sophos provided the best combination of management and protection. ESET
and Kaspersky were the runners up, but IMO the ESET console was way too
complex for our small environment and Kaspersky seemed like a good
product with a poor management tool thrown in afterwards, but this is
just my assessment based on limited testing and I am sure many others
are very happy with both products. :)
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Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 11:17 AM
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Subject: [THIN] The Anti-Virus Question (again!)
Hi all,
I've asked this before... but can anyone recommend the "best" AV both
for Citrix and "the rest of the enterprise".
i.e.: low footprint, simplicity to manage etc.
We're currently with F-Secure, licensed by user - so we can have clients
installed on as many servers & workstations as necessary.
We've found F-Secure to be quite "sluggish" and memory hungry and are
looking at alternatives.
I'm currently testing Kaspersky, which I've heard good things about, and
so far it's running OK - but I'd like to know recommendations on the
"best" solution from the community.
Any help gratefully received, as ever.
Cheers.
Regards
Nik Hunt
IT Services Manager
BM Polyco Ltd
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nik.hunt@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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