Corporate antivirus recommandations

[ammo]

Hi,

I'm the tech/admin for a highschool, and I have to re-equip our computers and server with up to date antivirus software and I'm looking for recommandations. We have about 80 computers, running win95, NT4, w2k, and linux mail server. I'm looking for experienced opinions about efficiancy, speed, managment.. you know...

TIA

Ammo

[Eversor]

Well, for workstations I personally am a fan of Norton Antivirus 2002 Professional. For your servers the Symantec Antivirus Enterprise Edition would probably suit you better since it integrates itself very well with NT, and W2K. Check this (http://enterprisesecurity.symantec.com/products/products.cfm?productID=64) link out for some more info. I have used both of the products and have been extremely happy with the results.

[Terr]

Well, I would seriously look at Deep Freeze from Hypetechnologies (http://www.antionline.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=126451) as a supplemental program. It keeps quite a few viruses out as a side effect of it's system-locking capabilities. I like it because it doesn't interfere with anything you want to do so long as you aren't counting on whatever-it-is being there after a reboot.

As for antivirus software... Hm. Would this be real-time scanning always-on stuff for the window machines?

[oblio]

try a hammer and Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth

[s0nIc]

well personally yeah i would agree with Norton Antivirus 2002 Professional... and Symantec Antivirus Enterprise Edition... their Live Update is always an asset for their softwares and highly recomendabe by experienced Network Administrators such as ME!! lolz

[shkuey]

Norton corporate is incredibly easy to set up and roll out to nt machines (your 95 machines will have to have the installer updated, which means going around to each one unless you've got SMS or something similar already in place). The real time scanning doesn't effect the speed in a noticeable way unless you're copying hundreds of files, but how often do you do that, you can just turn it off momentarily. Just my plug, I like the software package.

[deByte]

norton av products has easy configurations and options control, u can easy force all the clients to follow the option setting that u hv setup, esp not to allow the disable option on the clients. their definition updates r pretty much automated (liveupdates).

rgds
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[micael]

Just for the good sake I have to mention some other good softwares not mentioned above.


Panda AV (http://www.pandasoftware.com/):
Easy to roll out to clients.
Frequently updated.
Real time scanner takes less resources then traditional scanners like McAfee.
Good support and nice desinfect utilities.
Covers many platforms.
McAfee AV (http://www.mcafeeb2b.com/):
Easy to roll out to clients.
Frequently updated.
Real time scanner takes a lots of resources compared to so called DLL scanners.
Good support (depends on licence) and nice desinfect utilities.
Covers many platforms.


Personaly would I give Panda AV a good look since they have a verry good support and nice product and with their other services it makes their product a excelence choice. It has been a lots of discussions the past months about AV products here at AO and I would recomend you to look at these threads aswell :D.

[dark1]

u might like this one


http://www.hbedv.com/

[niboreon]

I realize that yours is a rather limited environment and that you're probably the only guy running it.

Two things:
(1) If your going to choose one product, then go with a mainstream vendor: Norton's, McAfee, TrendMicro

(2) If you've got the leaway, mix it up, so that you don't have all your eggs in one basket. We use a variety of products, keeping a database of what's where. I regularly change what I'm using on my own machine so that I can be familiar with the different products and keep tabs on which ones are weak and which ones are doing the job.

[{P²P}Apocalypse]

1. Kaspersy AntiVirus http://www.kaspersky.com/
2. Panda Antivirus http://www.pandasoftware.com/
Both are easy to deploy on networks. I tend to sway to Kaspersy though. It has a nice migration. The admin can set it t run in the background with custom paramiters on each machine that can't be tempered with by the user. But it still allows users to do manual scans. If they find anything or the background scanner does. It has a multitude of options to be notified. It will even lock out the offending program until you can get to it. As well it will notify you at home via personal email when away.
Norton is OK. I found MCaFee screwed things up a bit. Just my personal choices.

[ANTI-HACKERS]

I would have to go with Eversor and sonic on this. Symantec have been making quality products for years and they have an easy to use user interface and since they banded together with I.B.M for there virus definitions it makes there AV programs one of the best for virus protection. :)





ANTI-HACKERS

[bimmer]

i vote with the Norton and Symant. Solution .... it's doing fine in my company ... and we r running 4 servers with a 250 stations ...

[jcdux]

In this weeks Network News they have reviewed a few AV products, the full review & write-up can be found here (http://www.networknews.co.uk/Products/Software/1121529)

It's a good article with (IMHO) an unbiased review of some of the top AV vendors.

A good tip is to deploy a different AV product on the gateway than on the client machines, the gateway should also use stronger heuristics as this can again offer more protection (with less chance of disrupting client machines).

Lastly, the golden rule of any AV solution is good education for your users, if they're unaware of the risks of opening unsolicited attachments then your network can easily be the script kiddiez paradise.

:cool:

J.

[prana]

I agree with who likes norton Anti virus. I am fan of Norton. Anti virus Corporate Edition 7.6 is wonderful program. Their Live Update is always an asset for their softwares and highly recommend. Also snap in to any workstations to becoming manage. Server can scan all of them. You can kick back and surf anything you like to. Till they catch virus. It will email you to let you know that Virus Found!! It s very easy to use! :)

[Manish]

Norton Anti Virus & McAfee Anti Virus would be the two things I would recommend.

[gold eagle]

norton. A small caveat - individually load the engines on each server rather than the distribution method.

[Und3ertak3r]

While I have prefered Norton and Trend Micro, both missed Sub7 on a recent incident at work.. thank god for hardware firewalls..

[politroyx]

i'll recommend norton av.