Anti-Virus for Home Server

Ph4lanx

Ph4lanx

Ph4lanx

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Hi guys,

I was wondering if anyone knew of a decent anti-virus package for Windows Home Server?

At the moment, the WHS I run has no anti-virus, while my main PC has AVG Professional which expires on May 2nd, 2011.

I'm looking for a free one at present, as I want to make my current licence on my PC run out before I purchase a 2-PC licence from ESET for NOD32 which covers WHS plus my gaming machine.

I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on a free program for WHS until my AVG sub expires?
 
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going with the month trial of eset is a good idea, then just converting the license when your ready. apart from that, how about either microsoft security essentials or avira?
 
I did notice Avast does WHS AV aswell as NOD32. However I've also found some interesting discussions that due to the way WHS works, there's quite a big following out there that suggest NO AV is the way to go.
 
MSE doesn't work with WHS.

It depends how you use your data on WHS tbh. It should be scanned on storage to the server and on retreival by the client machine, but if you use remote access, and the client pc does not have AV, then there is a chance of infection. Same as torrenting etc.
 
I use the Avast WHS bundle to look after the WHS server and the PCs, laptops and netbooks that attach to it. The WHS console plug-in is pretty useful as it will highlight if any of the clients have out of date definitions.
 
rather not risk it, even though all client machines have AV.

Have NOD32 on my WHS but it only scans write access not read, helps speeds things up a bit.
 
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