I dont have that many users myself...but I did a while ago and change to Trend's Suite of products Desktop-Servers-Exchange-IMSS(gateway) after having run Mcafee for 3 years here and looked at Symantec and Antigen, and a couple others..
IF I had the budget... Hands down I would have used Antigen for my Exchange and SMTP gateway. And Trend for everything else. As I sit I have trend for everything..and Must say I like it VERY much... features are really nice, product is good to excellent. I have only found one "problem/feature" with IMSS which is potentially a significant problem for me..... I like it, Id use it again...I recommend it....it's a very complete suite, and good preformance..etc. 2 cents bill -----Original Message----- From: Bridges, Samantha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 1:41 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus Software for Exchange Hello All. Current Configuration: Exchange 5.5 Windows 2000 Advanced Server (One server) OWA CA AntiVirus CA ArcServe (w/blb) 19GB IS 900 Users Currently I run all services for Exchange on one server. I know, I know, and I have paid the price more than one late night coming in to reboot because services are failing. Most problems came when ArcServe started the brick-level backups (again I know....cannot convince Mgmt. to stop brick level backups....even with 30 day retention settings). When the BLB started it would knock out OWA or worse, slowing backups to a crawl taking 36 hours to do a brick level backup. Also, when doing virus updates, brick level backups would again fail. When it comes down to it, probably too many services running on one server. I have recently convinced my management to purchase another server for Exchange so that I may move some services from the primary server to a second server. The services that I will be moving to the additional server (additional server will be outside the firewall....primary server inside firewall) are OWA, IIS/HTTP, SSL, SMTP Gateway and the IMC. My question: I am not sure what kind of Antivirus and Antispam software to purchase and where to put it. As I understand it, Computer Assoc. does not sell a product that will scan just the IMC. Trend has a product called Interscan Messaging Security Suite that will scan the IMC box as mail comes and goes through it. Trend's ScanMail for Exchange scans the IS which is good but do I really need it if I am scanning on the second Exchange server IMC? I would appreciate your comments positive or negative. Thanks in advance! Samantha _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
