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Which Antivirus - 30.Jan.2001 7:45:00 AM

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Which specific antivirus shouldwe get? We need one to screen the emails at the server on top of the protection on the individual computers. We have an a small business server with MS Exchange 5.5 pack,MW NT server 4.0 pack with Proxy server Vers. 2.0 and a twin channel 128 modem. What do you suggest? Panda, Norton, McCaffrey ?? Which is best for our uses and protection?

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RE: Which Antivirus - 30.Jan.2001 9:09:00 AM

Nizar

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I would recommend Trend Micro ScanMail for Exchange Server, and Norton Antivirus for the desktops. This way, you have a 2-level protection (server level and desktop level). On top, you would not be relying on a single vendor.

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RE: Which Antivirus - 6.Feb.2001 2:58:00 PM

Guest

We use InoculateIT from Computer Associates. It scans email, and also can be set to automatically update the desktops. CA puts out virus sigs almost weekly.

David

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RE: Which Antivirus - 6.Feb.2001 3:10:00 PM

BruteForce

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No offense chaika, but InoculateIT sucks. We've had it on our desktops for about 3 years and do updates as soon as they come out. Our last estimate was that 75% of all incoming viruses were UNDETECTED and those machines were infected. We recently moved to Norton AV Corp. edition and were amazed at the difference. We ran manual scans for a week on all of our servers and desktops and found about 700 viruses. Since then, not one virus has gotten in. As for server side protection, I agree with Nizar. Get a seperate product from your desktops to provide 2 tier protection in case a virus isn't included in one products update. One of our customers uses Trend on the server and it works great.

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RE: Which Antivirus - 7.Feb.2001 8:13:00 AM

Guest

The two products that get recommended within the consultancy field are Trend ScanMail or Sybari Antigen. Last I checked, both used either MAPI or AVAPI.

I personally like ScanMail. Antigen uses a reverse-engineered DLL approach, which I'm not 100% ok with.

Neil

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RE: Which Antivirus - 9.Feb.2001 12:09:00 PM

MajMojo

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We currently run Trend on the servers and Norton on the desktops. the only time we have had a problem was using MAPI scanning. I have recently upgraded to the newest ver (3.51) which allows for AVAPI and MAPI at the same time.
Have had no problems sinces.
mojo

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