C'mon Roger, can you really comment on a product that it appears you've never used or had any direct experience with? Any time you install new software you run the risk of downtime if something doesn't install properly. I think we all have to do our best to plan for the unexpected regardless of the manufacturer of the software... I've spent my fair share of time trying to fix or work around oddities in Norton's software too. The question is pretty much moot.
We've been using GSE 5.2 since we made the switch to Exch2k early this year. It's only been running for 6 months for us, but we haven't had one bit of trouble from it yet. It works as advertised, hasn't caused any instability on our Exchange server and has been fairly maintenance free (only had to apply one patch since installing it and the auto-update keeps the AV defs up-to-date)... Of course better heuristics would be nice, but that can be said for just about any AV product and is a whole other discussion...... To the original poster who asked about replacing Norton... Check with NAI, I'm sure they'd be happy to assist you with the conversion. They may have an insta-doc on steps for removing Norton in preparation for installing GSE. Joe Pochedley If you have time to do it twice, you had time to do it right in the first place. -----Original Message----- From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 7:16 AM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: Switching from NAV to GroupShield How much is downtime worth to your company? I'd say that NAI is the Computer Associates of the Antivirus world, but CA put themselves in that possition. Let's just say I'd probably[1] run without antivirus before I'd put Groupshield on a server. -------------------------------------------------------------- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. [1] In fact, when I started here 4 years ago, we *had* Groupshield. And it wasn't installed on any of the Exchange servers. > -----Original Message----- > From: Alexander Kha Do [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 8:30 PM > To: NT 2000 Discussions > Subject: RE: Switching from NAV to GroupShield > > > It's cheaper and we use NAI ePolicy Orchestrator w/ VirusScan > Enterprise 7.0. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 5:28 PM > To: NT 2000 Discussions > Subject: RE: Switching from NAV to GroupShield > > > Now why would you want to do that? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alexander Kha Do [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 4:05 PM > To: NT 2000 Discussions > Subject: Switching from NAV to GroupShield > > Anyone ever converted an Exchange 2000 server from Norton for > Exchange to > GroupShield 5.2 for Exchange? > > Know what the issues are? Residual effects on performance / > stability? > > Thanks, > Alex > > ------ > You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=nt2000&tex t_mode=&lang=e nglish To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=nt2000&text_mode=&la ng=e nglish To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=nt2000&text_mode=&la ng=e nglish To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=nt2000&text_mode=&la ng=english To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=nt2000&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
