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by orionprime

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Hi,

I need some feedback/input on anti virus software for our network. The network consist of 2 servers and 15 clients. I am deciding on the following anti virus products and which one would you recommend?

- Symantec Antivirus 7.6 Corp. Edition
- Trend Micro's Office Scan
- Trend Micro's ServerProtect

There are hardly any reviews done on the Trend Micro's products, so any feedbacks about them are appreciated.

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by lordinfidel

Go with TrendMicro. Mcaffee is also good.

The 2 above make it easy if you ever get an exchange server to block extensions at the mail gateway.

Plus they are more reliable then norton and less intrusive into the os.

by labtrainer

I have use Norton Corp edition on NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 Server. I has successfully caught a number of attacks on both servers. I have also used Norman, but it let a bug get through. I have no experience with Trend Micro or McAfee server editions.

by aclopez5

McAfee and Trend Micro are good products, but so is Norton AntiVirus. To say Norton is unreliable and intrusive is not a fair statement. It works great when properly configured. In fact, Norton does a much better job of centralizing the administration.

However, the only way to do email attachment blocking with NAV for Exchange is via the registry. Symantec has a document on their website that explains how to do it.. it's not difficult.

My 2nd choice would be McAfee.

by lordinfidel

In my opinion, hacking the registry is not an valid option.

I've been working with exchange now for a few years. And the last think I would want anyone doing is hacking up an exchange servers registry.

If you can't configure the product thru the front end, (we are talking about windows, not linux) then it is not worth it.

Trend and Mcaffee's groupshield allow you to block extenstions. Which is the preferred scenario in anti-virus protection. You should *NEVER* rely on virus definitions. They are only as good as the last update. Ans someone has to be infected first in order to create the update.

I am not willing to take that chance on any network that I work on. I do not even rely on Mcaffees virus definitions.

As far as intusiveness, I get this all of the time. Maybe norton has gotten better, but I doubt it. If I had a penny for every time I fixed a machine by just removing norton and manually cleaning the registry, I would be a rich man. This can not be disputed, Norton has a long history of "adding features" to "help" the os when in fact it hurt's the os. Just like AOL writing their own tcp/ip stack.

Mcaffee does have a web based interface for their new line that allows central administration of users desktops.

As far as exchnage goes, trend and mcafee both plug-in to exchange, which allows you to administer the AV product from within the Exchange Admin program itself.

The moral.... never trusts AV products to do the work for you. It's bad administration.

by nobrien

I have been working with Norton for 2 years now in two capacities-Business Retail 50 servers 1000 users and Military 20 severs, 2500 users without a doubt Norton is hands down the best. Tried McAfee, cumbersome and autoupdates not good. Corp edtion 7.6 of Norton has been the easiest and most reliable.

by natcat

I've read thru the other replies posted and I'm a bt worried that no one has talked about the product i'm using.

Has anyone used innoculate and can compare it Norton for relativly small networks of less than 50 users?

by ferocious

http://www.av-test.org/ They did a test of 20 different software solutions in 47 different categories. No company got 100% in all categories, but 2 companies' solutions had the highest number of 100 percentile scores - McAfee Corporate and F-Secure.

by tomsal

Personally, I don't have much experience with McAfee's network solutions only their (single) personal computer anti-virus programs.

I set up Trend Mirco's Virus Wall product and then added their E-mail management module on top of that. I must say I really like it. And since we've set it up its be trouble free and no virus attacks have infected any node on our LAN.

I really like how much control you have - particular if you buy the e-mail management module, the control over e-mail traffic is fantastic. Anti-spam filters, junk mail blockers - all update automatically to stop the most popular spammers and junk mail senders in their tracks.

You can also block extensions (even by MIME types). The reporting is excellent, actually gives me more information that I really care to know to be honest with you.

The Viruswall component, on the other hand, does a superb job at analyzing multiple protocols for virus attacks and it protects against macros as well (of course I think they all do that now). It'll scan HTTP traffic to - but you need to have a proxy set up before you can do that.

All that and it updates automatically at a time I set. So once its configured you can just forget about it for the most part.

by big-jim

Wow, your bitterness is greatly appreciated.

Having used Norton for OVER 10 years, I can see where you would have problems with the product. You are one who believes that every company should produce a product where all features are available through a GUI.

Sorry, but manipulating the registry, on ANY server is NOT a big deal. (if it IS for you, you should learn how to do it.)

Symmantec has produced an awesome product with Norton Corp Ed. 7.5. It is our Corporate Standard, and with it's centralized functions, we have not been infected with any of the latest outbreaks, from Melissa on to Klez and all points in-between.

If you have had problems with it, well, then you must of skipped reading the installation notes or other documentation, because it was easy for us to install, configure, and deploy.

I have used Mcafee and Trend, and both of their products are good, but don't hold a candle to Norton Corp Ed 7.5.

Sorry if you don't agree...

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