Firewall and Antivirus

Hi,
I use Symantec's Norton Antivirus [now] 2003 which comes packaged in their system works and Zone Alarm Pro for a firewall with Spywarenuker for Worms, Trojans, and Adaware remover/
Symantec's Norton Antivirus is a yearly insurense to me for stopping viruses and they stay up to date with their definations.
Zone Alarm Pro is a good firewall that is configurable for pop ups and a secure machine.
Spywarenuker is for the Trojans and Worms as well as it will remove Hackerware, Spyware and Adaware reporting cookies.
Norton should cost about 30 and ZoneAlarm is 30 for two years and Spyware nuker is 20 for one year.
I do hope this helps,
fred

To add to the first respondents comments while the mix of products covers protecting quite adequately it will not address spammail. To reduce (no such thing as total elimination) you should look also for a good spam killer app and stay away from outlook express as a mail client.

rick

You should use norton corporate edition, installed on PDC, to secure your clients. They don't have to live update, server is doing it. And they can't even disable norton. Using it for year with no troubles.
As a firewall, you should consider installing a material firewall, ie even a router firewalled (symantec), or a proxy server, serving as DMZ.

You will need a enterprise firewall like MS ISA server and not a personal firewall.
When installing and configured right (using proxy client, and clients set etc, you will be safe, you can test at among others www.grc.com)
http://www.microsoft.com/ISAServer/

Installing Norton mail security for exchange will protect you from virus within the exchange server.

Symantec Antivirus for Smtp gateway will protects you from Spam.http://enterprisesecurity.symantec.com/products/products.cfm?ProductID=164&EID=0

Norton has a firewall solution also.
Since 2 of the 3 products that I mentioned are from Norton I will suggest to contact them and see if there may be a package solution that will satisfy your needs, so that you dont need to buy programs from seperate companies.

You can also search on http://www.windows2000mag.com/
and www.exchangefaq.com for what are the best programs that tie in with exchange regarding antivirus and spamfiltering software.

Leopold

Implement firewall and SMTP virus scanner either at or before your mail server and use a good desktop AV product. Use executable attachment blocking if feasible. Introduce an AUP amd educate your users.

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