Another issue to consider. Once you have installed Groupshield on your Exchange server, don't plan on ever removing it. There is a document floating around somewhere on how to uninstall Groupshield from E2K. Its about 10 pages long and calls for skills equal to that of a brain surgeon. I'm not joking about this. Anything that digs in that deeply should not be considered.
-----Original Message----- From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 5:31 AM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: Switching from NAV to GroupShield On Exchange, there are only two vendors worth considering. One is Trend (my choice), the other is Sybari. No one else has correctly created a process for accessing the mail data and passing it to the scanning engine. Norton, NAI and others have never had a completely stable hook into the mail stores. Over the last 5-6 years, I've done a seat of the pants tracking of antivirus definitions, and without fail, Trend is one of the earliest and is the most consistent in releasing definitions to catch and clean data. We have used Norton on the desktop for the last 2-3 years, and consistently have issues with the instability it brings to the client PCs. Our support is up at the end of the year and we will be replacing it with OfficeScan from Trend. Prior to Norton, we had the NAI/McAfee corporate solution (I want to say the 4.x range of products, its been 3 years), and consistently and without fail could not keep more than 50% of our clients current. We went as far as having one of the NAI engineers onsite to demonstrate and help configure an ePO server for testing. That server never successfully managed a single client. On the other hand, we've run Trend for close to 4 years, and I ran Trend for a few prior to my arrival here, and have yet to be the victim of any email borne virus outbreaks. In the end, Trend's track record in my envrionment, with our experiences, has proven its the best product out there for our money. -------------------------------------------------------------- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 8:13 AM > To: NT 2000 Discussions > Subject: RE: Switching from NAV to GroupShield > > > Roger, > > Why? You obviously have some feelings on the issue. Please share. > > ======================== > Not to Roger specifically. But wanted to put this in w/out doing a > new message. > > Corporate NAV 8 users: > "We experienced a major failure in our Symantec Antivirus protection > software today, caused by a faulty set of definition updates from > Symantec. > Specifically, the updates they released yesterday (rc:Thursday, June > 19th) via their Intelligent Updater mechanism had a problem that > caused all 8.0 clients to choke. Earlier versions of clients (7.5) > were not affected. The problem was somewhere in the mechanism that > performs "microdefinition updates". " > > Symantec tech support said they were aware of the problem, and > provided me with a way to fix affected systems: copy the full 4 MB > .VDB file to those systems, and then restart the service or reboot the > system if the service could not be restarted. > > Issue: > Symantec has not issued any security alert for this issue, > nor have they > posted any information on their website, at least not in any > location that > I've been able to find so far. > > > > At 06:14 6/24/2003, you wrote: > >No one in their right mind would do that, so I'm thinking > you won't get many > >real world examples of it. > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------- > >Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP > >Sr. Systems Administrator > >Inovis Inc. > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Alexander Kha Do [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 7:05 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=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&te xt_mode=&lang=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=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=&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=&lang=english To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
