What antivirus do you use on your network

mrbios said:
I know it seems like an odd choice but i find MSE a lot less system intensive and intrusive, it's my prefered AV to be honest, if microsoft did an enterprise console for it i'd probaby use that on the network. That said though....sophos enterprise is free for us so we don't complain on that front.
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Fair enough.
 
mrbios said:
I know it seems like an odd choice but i find MSE a lot less system intensive and intrusive, it's my prefered AV to be honest, if microsoft did an enterprise console for it i'd probaby use that on the network. That said though....sophos enterprise is free for us so we don't complain on that front.
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isn't what you're describing Forefront?
 
mrbios said:
I know it seems like an odd choice but i find MSE a lot less system intensive and intrusive, it's my prefered AV to be honest, if microsoft did an enterprise console for it i'd probaby use that on the network. That said though....sophos enterprise is free for us so we don't complain on that front.
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They do - you just have to pay for it :p - it's FEP usually deployed in conjunction with SCCM.

May be worth you checking your ELA as it's usually very competitive if you are looking to deploy SCCM
 
Sophos all the way.
The way it slips so nicely into AD - compared to everything else we've used and tried it is amazing.
 
We use Sophos and deploy Sophos simply because of the management console. Companies usually just want an icon in the bottom right to say they have protection, rather than being bothered about it's efficacy.

There are better antivirus detection + removal programs.
I'd put Microsoft's AV offering above them all honestly, it's really excellent - and free!?
 
Uhtred said:
out of interest, what don't you like about sep? At my old place we used sophos and now at my new job it's sep which I've found ok so far to be honest.
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I don't really support it as I focus on MS technology, but I often see "up to date" machines getting infected with virii/spyware etc. Of course, that may be a policy setting or something but as I don't support it directly I can't say.

The network card issue is also very annoying, just today I had to uninstall it from my Config Mgr server and it blew out the network cards which is a common problem (that was supposed to be resolved in the release we are running).
 
PAz said:
SEP. It sucks.
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This.

It is slow and uses more resources than necessary. In January 2010 they had that problem where they'd been storing the year field of the definitions as a single digit, so the program wouldn't know that 01/01/2010 was newer than 29/12/2009... took them ages to fix. It's not all that good at actually blocking malware either (seen SEP let malware on to an XP PC (without admin rights) and then the malware completely disable SEP).
It's only saving grace is that it has good logging of when programs are blocked from accessing the internet, so adding a rule to allow it is dead easy.


Use NOD32 at home. Wish we used it at work!
 
Linux servers: nothing
Windows web hosting servers: Sophos and AVG 2011 File Server
Windows office servers: AVG 2011 File Server
Workstations / VMs: Avast 6.0 and MSE

Just waiting for Avast to get their new packaging sorted so I can deploy via AD using an MSI package
 
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