I haven't had issues with Mail Security in the 4.6 and 4.6 builds. 4.0 would give me some headaches, but they seemed to solve a lot of their problems with 4.5/4.6. on 4.0, I had to turn off the option to scan after a virus def update, because it would peg the CPU and mail would back up heavily. If I didn't use that feature, it seemed OK.
I don't use the anti-spam side of it, I use I Hate Spam Server Edition, and will be adding a gateway appliance since I Hate Spam has to run at the mail store level which means spams hits the store that doesn't really need to. That being said, I'm still looking to switch off Symantec entirely. The fiasco they had with v10.0 for desktops really turned me off. It need TWO registry keys to turn off some scan items that would quarantine Remote Administrator, they were not avaialble through central management. They then put out 10.0.1 to have both off by default, with 1 available in the console to manage. Total stupidity on their QA/QC people to let 10.0.0 fly with those settings. Top on the fact that their virus defs are getting to be ridiculously huge, which means a lot of wasted network bandwdith, I'm ready to go elsewhere. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derek Harris Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 12:08 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Antivirus for Exchange I don't think you'd want Symantec Mail Security anyway. I inherited it, and it's a big source of frustration. The AV works OK: it's caught everything that's been thrown at it, but it uses a lot of CPU. The anti-spam part, however, sucks. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Aldrich Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 6:23 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Antivirus for Exchange Ahh... Ok. We currently don't have ANY Antivirus for Exchange. I'm looking at trying to get something, and we currently use Symantec for the network/desktop. Unfortunately, I think Symantec has stopped supporting Exchange 5.5, which is what we currently use. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Erick Thompson Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 5:23 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Antivirus for Exchange I've used it, and while the AV is good, the performance is not nearly good enough. The problem is, it runs before Exchange IMF, so it has to scan all the spam, which overloads it fairly quickly. Also, the way it works is to use the command line tool, which needs to reload everything every time, which is slow. It's 90% of the way there... Erick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Aldrich Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 1:18 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Antivirus for Exchange That's why I asked here if anyone had used it. :D John -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris Scharff Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 4:17 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Antivirus for Exchange I have no personal opinion on AVG's email server product as I've never used it. In general though my standards for what I will use in terms of 3rd party software on a mission critical server are pretty high. I've used AVG on desktop clients on the past with success, but I'm willing to let 10k other people try it on their Exchange servers before I do. YMMV -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Aldrich Posted At: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 12:47 PM Posted To: swynk Conversation: Antivirus for Exchange Subject: Antivirus for Exchange Has anyone used AVG's Email Server Edition on their Exchange servers? I've got AVG Freeware on my wife's PC and install it on PCs that I work on (for friends, etc.) Just wondering if anyone has tried AVG's Exchange-compatible version. What do y'all on the list like for scanning email? John _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. 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