We have had an ongoing discussion at our office on the best mid-market antivirus solution to offer our customers. We have been officially flogging CA's Inoculate (InoculateIT, eTrust, whatever) for 4 years now and I personally like the direction it has taken. But, when they recently released their Exchange Agent for Version 6.0, everyone at our office rolled their eyes and shuddered. With the lack of scheduled scans, notification and hard to find logs it is a really poor product.

Now, we are unsure of what to offer our customers. McAffe with their Groupshield Exchange product is the nicest I've seen for user interface and ease of learning. But, I'm not really sold on the rest of the product line. I've only had experience with Norton's corporate and personal antivirus products but no Exchange products, if they even offer any.

What are your opinions on the best mid-market solution for Antivirus products? I'm looking for something that will protect Exchange 5.5 or 2000 servers as well as some kind of all out network protection down to the workstation level. Your thoughts would be most welcome.

Rob Milman
Project Specialist
Quorum Information Systems Inc.