Antivirus

Wow all the CIO's must have gone to lunch or passed this one down to the OPs guys.

Well my vote would be for Trend Micro at www.antivirus.com.

Of course most of the enterprise vendors Symantec, CA and others all have solutions along this line. In fact, most of the major and not so major antivirus programs have this available, just costs a bit more.

I can tell you about our network. All computers have by default from vendor Norton Antivirus. I found on Symantec site . With this I create a custom HostFile and I copy at all workstation. In addition I create a script which was replicated on all workstation and run at startup. How work this:
-LiveUpdate Administration Utility downloads the newest updates from Symantec (scheduled) and stores these in a shared folder.
-Host file force workstation to check for update only on network at defined share.
-All workstation at startup automatically checks for updates to that share.
In addition I built a tool with (from resource kit) and access to control which users abort this task.
If you have Norton Antivirus you don?t need to spend more money.