Take a good look at the offerings from Trend Micro (www.antivirus.com). Their NeatSuite package is a complete gateway/e-mail/server/desktop AV solution and is attractively priced, but even better, the products perform and are easily managed from a central web-based interface. I've been using Trend for 3 years now and am consistently amazed at how little effort I have to put in to administer it. And Trend is almost always first to the gate with updates when a new threat is identified. Somedays there are as many as 3-4 definition updates and I'm set to check for new ones hourly.
You can download the products and use them for 30 days. Should you decide you don't like them (not likely), they uninstall very cleanly. Trend also offers academic pricing. For quick ballpark prices go to www.provantage.com and search for NeatSuite. Roger Wright Southern Commerce Bank -----Original Message----- From: Alexander Kha Do [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 1:35 PM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: Antivirus Strategy I know I'm about to start a huge fire here - It is pretty much in agreeance that for comprehensive antivirus protection, you need scanning at the gateway, smtp, group mail and client levels. I'd like to focus more on the clients here in this discussion, but where other protection with suites ties in would be appropriate as well. How do some of you enjoy / dislike the enterprise-management features of your protection - mainly in relation to NAV Corporate, or McAfee VirusScan / Netshield in conjunction with the ePolicy Orchestrator? Right now some issues I have are that Symantec seems to consistently be slower at releasing definitions than McAfee, but I have heard better things about the Norton mangement console than about ePolicy Orchestrator. We have a very hodge-podge defense right now - no gateway or SMTP defense, Norton on Exchange (we also have a UNIX POP server that we are migrating away from with no protection other than .procmailrc files), and McAfee on the desktops and servers with no ePolicy management - and are in the process of re-evaluating our entire overall strategy. Our users are 700 regular employees, faculty, and public lab workstations, and 1200 students in dorms that we cannot install software for. We're also considering eSafe Gateway, because it is so comprehensive and is cheaper than other gateway solutions. Do some of you relax your client protection if you invest in fully comprehensive gateway protection?? Thanks in advance. -Alex ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% _______ NOTICE: The information contained in this electronic message is considered privileged and confidential under Florida Statutes 455.251 and 3905.017. It is intended solely for the use of the recipient named above. If the reader is not the recipient named above, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or disclosure of the contents of this message is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail message in error, please immediately notify the sender and destroy the original message. ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
