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xirokx

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Hey guys,

Wonder if you could clarify whether its true that there is no free antivirus software for servers currently available?

If yes, please advise how good avira is?

If no, please advise which antivirus software you would purchase because its bang for buck? I see there is around £50 difference between AVG and AVASTs 2 year server antivirus software, would anyone know which is better and why?

Alternatively if there is cheaper for better please advise

Thanks in advance..

Cheers
 
AFAIK there is no free server AV yes

I'd reccomend Kaspersky - cant comment on the ones you mentioned
 
Avast is really good i've found, using it on around 50 servers at the moment with no problem. Dont use eTrust whatever you do.
 
What's the management console like for NOD32?

I'm not impressed with McAfee VirusScan detection rates of late (VS Enterprise 8.7 with the latest DATs misses an infected USB stick which even I can see), the Symantec EPS console seems overly complicated to achieve anything and Kaspersky licenses per mailbox on Exchange (which would be a pain).
 
Are they licensing on mailboxes now? When I bought it a little while ago you got x number of mailbox licenses per server license
 
It's weird - buy "Enterprise Space Security" for 25 workstations/servers and you get 37 mailboxes. What a random number of mailboxes.
 
I use the Kaspersky Open Space security on our networks.. The admin kit is quite nice and I'm a big fan of it! :)

The installer MSI for the desktop Kaspersky anti virus can be edited to work on servers but don't know how legit doing this is..
 
#Chri5# said:
What's the management console like for NOD32?

I'm not impressed with McAfee VirusScan detection rates of late (VS Enterprise 8.7 with the latest DATs misses an infected USB stick which even I can see), the Symantec EPS console seems overly complicated to achieve anything and Kaspersky licenses per mailbox on Exchange (which would be a pain).
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Have a look at the user guide, should give you a good overview

http://www.eset.com/download/ESET_ERA_User_Guide_EN_rew.pdf
 
We use nod32 on all of our clients and servers (including virus protection for exchange).

I find the remote administration/server excellent, no problems what-so-ever. The mirror is quick to setup and generally all administrative tasks are fairly straight forward.
 
I've just rolled out Symantec Endpoint MR4. It was fairly painless and seems easy to administrate. I'm not really sure why everyone bad mouths Symantec, nobody ever seems to back their statement up with any specific evidence. I think people get confused and expect it to be as bad as the consumer Norton products. One warning though, don't install the trialware clients and expect to be able to pull them in to the console when you have purchased the license. For some reason this is not possible, you have to completely uninstall and reinstall with the licensed version, I found out the hard way. All in all a lot better than our previous CA E-Trust solution. The Symantec support is a lot better and the website is a lot clearer than CA's cryptic beast!
 
bimboles said:
I've just rolled out Symantec Endpoint MR4. It was fairly painless and seems easy to administrate. I'm not really sure why everyone bad mouths Symantec, nobody ever seems to back their statement up with any specific evidence. I think people get confused and expect it to be as bad as the consumer Norton products. One warning though, don't install the trialware clients and expect to be able to pull them in to the console when you have purchased the license. For some reason this is not possible, you have to completely uninstall and reinstall with the licensed version, I found out the hard way. All in all a lot better than our previous CA E-Trust solution. The Symantec support is a lot better and the website is a lot clearer than CA's cryptic beast!
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I used it up to v11

  • Performance was very poor, quite a large memory overhead
  • The detection rates werent up to scratch
  • The administration was complete rubbish, allowed little or no control over the endpoints.
  • Reliability was a problem, you needed to "unlock" servers in the management console and machines would just refuse to unlock. Even an uninstall/reinstall of client and management host didnt work, leaving half our servers in a state of limbo.
  • Support was terrible - the staff didnt have a clue or seem to care about the above problem

After that experience we moved to Kaspersky and I wouldnt go back to Symantec
 
I used to use the old Symantec Corporate until they changed over to Endpoint Protection. I used this once and never again. It was slow, unreliable and didn't seem to work properly with all the PCs on the network. Started using Kaspersky Open Space security after that! :)
 
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