RE: Antigen vs. ScanMail

[COrland]

Title: RE: Antigen vs. ScanMail

We 'just' changed over to the Trend suite from *cough* CA's wannabe version of antivirus. Other then the fact that I got the message attachment blocking up and running less then an hour before the goner virus starting hammering our server, it was not too painful to configure.

Some of the trial's and tribulations of the install:

The tvcs console wants a default password...not the one you installed it with.....and of course it is not in their documentation, but IS on their knowledge base......yippee...esp when you discover that after totally un-installing and re-installing because you think you've made a mistake. The console itself...well...personally I don't like the lack of functionality that it provides (when you compare it to the individual product consoles), but...it does kind of work.

So far, so good! Its pushing the install to the NT machines without too many problems, and will even uninstall CA's product first before it installs (very slick!) and the definitions are deployed pretty quickly to the machines when they come online in the am.

The server protect piece works pretty smoothly as well and yes, you can push out the install to remote servers fairly easily.

It took us a while, but we finally managed to get corp to make a wise decision! *grin*

 

Two thumbs up to Trend!!

 

Smile Lots!

Cameron

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Crouthamel, Jonathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 1:31 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Antigen vs. ScanMail

Do you utilize centralized management with Trend? ie updating desktops via a console. I guess my question is, does Trend have a similar product to NAI's EPO?

 

Thanks for the info...After all these threads its been narrowed down to two products.

 

Jonathan

-----Original Message-----
From: Moody, Jacqueline [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 1:24 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Antigen vs. ScanMail

We also started with NAI and had a lot of problems with it.  The desktops defaulted to checking mapped network drives, which slowed some logons down to a crawl.  We now have Trend deployed throughout the enterprise (165 site WAN, 400 servers, 20,000+ workstations, Exchange) and are very, make that extremely happy with it.  For Exchange, I wouldn't look at anything other than Trend or Antigen. 

Jackye

-----Original Message-----
From: Crouthamel, Jonathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 1:16 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Antigen vs. ScanMail

We currently use NAI products (unfortunately). I have been looking into antigen as an alternative when our licenses come up for renewal. A quick perusal on Trend's site shows that they also offer file server as well as desktop protection options. Has anyone used these other products and how have you found them? That was the one and only thing I liked about NAI, getting all the needed products from one vendor.

Jonathan

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob t. Berge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 4:12 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Antigen vs. ScanMail

Thanks!! :)

PS: Ignore my last post, especially the Antigen part, I read newer posts and found the answer I was looking for ;)

Thanks for that Mich�le!!

Bob

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Neil Hobson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Verzonden: donderdag 13 december 2001 10:03
> Aan: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Onderwerp: RE: Antigen vs. ScanMail
>
>
> IIRC = If I Remember Correctly.
>
> AFAIK, this is the best site for this:
>
> http://www.acronymfinder.com
>
> Neil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob t. Berge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Posted At: 13 December 2001 08:51
> Posted To: Sunbelt Exchange List
> Conversation: Antigen vs. ScanMail
> Subject: RE: Antigen vs. ScanMail
>
>
> First of all my appologies for not understanding what IIRC means.
> Second, I've been through every option in Antigen and i canNOT find
> ANY way to ignore zipfile contends. So, if you DO have that option
> then please be so kind and enlighten me.
>
> Thank you very much in advance,
>
> Bob
>
> > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> > Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Verzonden: woensdag 12 december 2001 17:13
> > Aan: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> > Onderwerp: RE: Antigen vs. ScanMail
> >
> >
> > IIRC, you can configure Antigen to ignore the contents of zip files.
> >
> > -Mich�le
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> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bob t. Berge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 11:15 AM
> > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> > Subject: Antigen vs. ScanMail
> >
> >
> > Here's my 2 EUR cents about these 2 applications.
> > 
> > I installed Antigen on one server and ScanMail on another (yes i got
> > it working after i applied SP2 for Ex2k).
> > From what i've seen so far, neither one has the ability to block *.*
> > except *.zip, for example. You have the choice to either block ALL
> > attachments without exception, or block only the files with the
> > extensions you provide. A point extra goes to Antigen for not just
> > looking at the extension but also checking the file's
> headers to make
> > sure a .jpg isn't in fact a .exe.
> > But ScanMail gets the extra point for the option to set how deep
> > compressed files should be checked for filtered extensions,
> hence give
> > you the option to ignore zipfiles(!), unlike Antigen, which
> > removes the
> > filtered extensions from compressed files also.
> > 
> > The viruschecking part of both apps seem to be thorough and good.
> > 
> > I think i'm gonna use ScanMail instead of Antigen on our main Ex2k
> > server though, Antigen is good but i am missing a few features that
> > ScanMail does have.
> > 
> > Well I just wanted to let you all know what I think about
> em, do what
> > you want to do with the info ;)
> > 
> > Now i could use a nice cold beer, preferably Palm (I think it's
> > Belgian).
> > 
> > Greets,
> > 
> > Bob
> > 
> > 
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