Justino, for my gateway, I'm filtering SMTP on my Watchguard Firewall using their AV add-on. It seems to be based on an AVG product.
As for malware, no. With the firewall screwed down tight, especially with the SMTP scanning, I get very little malware activity at all. In reality, I could probably run without desktop AV at all. But I'm not completely crazy. -Bill On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:13 PM, justino garcia <[email protected]>wrote: > what is that gateway av product your using? > Had you had issues with malware infecting your pcs anyway? > > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Bill Songstad <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I Replaced Symantec AV 10 with Vipre earlier this year. I expected the >> process to be pretty smooth. After all, I had been running Ninja/vipre >> email for years and loved it. I was sadly disappointed both in the >> performance of Vipre and the famous Sunbelt tech support. Vipre Server >> doesn't play well with others. Especially other Sunbelt products. I >> suppose I could just buy some more server licenses for each Sunbelt product, >> but I went with Sunbelt because they were good AND affordable. But if you >> have to add a Windows server license to each install, that dramatically >> changes the per user cost in a small shop like mine. As it stands now, I >> have Vipre enterprise running on the same box as Sunbelt Exchange Archiver. >> Neither product will start with the server. I have to log in manually and >> start them. >> >> On the client side, the email scanning performance for Outlook 2007 was so >> bad I had to turn it off and purchase a gateway antivirus product to keep my >> mailboxes clean. Any time you selected items in Outlook 2007 in excess of a >> hundred or so, like when cleaning out your sent items or deleted items, >> Outlook 2007 would hang for 10 seconds per hundred items selected. Outlook >> 2003 was also affected, but not as badly. >> >> Support told me that selecting that many items would naturally cause a >> performance hit and wanted to close the case. I suggested that that was >> significantly worse performance than Symantec, the yardstick for poor >> performance, and that I thought one full minute/per thousand emails selected >> was unacceptable. I even copied my salesperson. That was in January. I >> haven't heard from anyone. I guess when I said they could close the ticket >> if they thought hangs like that were acceptable, they thought it was >> acceptable. I don't, but hey, now I have another product protecting my >> perimeter. Of course, my price per user trippled... >> >> Bill >> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Ray <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I know this has been discussed many times in the past, but I'm going to >>> ask >>> again. Our McAfee contract is nearing renewal and we're looking for >>> alternatives. We have about 4,000 desktops in 20 remote sites. We'd >>> love >>> the flexibility of managing everything from centralized console, and >>> perhaps >>> even allowing the local sites on-site staff to have access to their own >>> machines. Not all our pipes are that great, so a distributed model for >>> .dat >>> updates would be ideal. >>> >>> We are currently evaluating Vipre. Last year we looked at and actually >>> chose >>> to buy Nod32, but, well, long story, and it wasn't the vendors fault. >>> >>> We're also looking at Trend and Sophos. >>> >>> Any feedback on what you have now and why you chose it or are dumping it >>> would be great. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Ray >>> >>> >>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >>> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Justin > IT-TECH > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
