[RESOLVED] the best there is ?

[Wismerhill]

Hi, can somebody tell me wich is the best anti virus product on the market for a corporate enviroment ? We're currently running McAffee 4.X .

[TeddyRuxspin]

According to MessageLabs (Big email virus scanning company) The top 3 are all pretty much the same. Both the ones below are in the top 3
F-Prot is one of the best and we use it on our firewall.
Sophos is the other one we use and is the corporate virus proection system. We install it to all our client machines and servers.

Both of these have very quick response times to new virus's and Sophos have been given awards for having 100% detection rates.

Check out
Sophos Homepage (http://www.sophos.com)

I hope this helps

[Mayet]

We found that the top ones like Macafee Vet and Nortons did not pick up email viruses or hostile web scripts. Even when updated weekly.
Others would work but virtually stop you from performing standard tasks. I still have yet to find a perfect user friendly anti-Virus package that will protect properly.

[Darren Wilson]

Originally posted by Mayet:
We found that the top ones like Macafee Vet and Nortons did not pick up email viruses or hostile web scripts. Even when updated weekly.
Others would work but virtually stop you from performing standard tasks. I still have yet to find a perfect user friendly anti-Virus package that will protect properly.

NAV2001 does and I can vouch for that personally.

[Mr_Miyagi]

i used to be a mcafee fan, but have really gone off them.

i now use the ontrack realtime scanner - part of the system suite utilities..

my wifes machine has norton 2001.

my server still has mcafee, as its not used that much.

IMHO ;)

[AlienDyne]

I've always been a fan of NAV. The NAV 2001 version has my vote!

[jimtcurry]

a couple of years ago i used mcafee because it was free and small. But know i use nortons because it finds so many more virus than mcafee. we get customers with mcafee and they still get virus. we remove mcafee and install nortons and boom detects virus.
its got me sold.

[Darren Wilson]

Now I know that this has been covered more than enough times already, but NAV 2001 Corporate edition.

[Wildman6971]

I would have to agree on the Norton as far as all around features and ease of implementation. :)

[Quiet Thunder]

I used to be a hugh McAfee fan, but have turned, like most, towards Norton 2001. They seem to catch more, and I've noticed that McAfee tends to cause a lot of problems with cpu's, especially laptops. I've really become a fan of Norton's liveupdate, as it's just finally become a reliable program, and Norton has the best Virus database around. McAfee just kind of tells you to run the program. Norton tells you which regestry entrys to make sure are gone, which files to make sure to delete, ect... I've found Norton to be much more through and has a quicker response to a new virus.

[JungleMan1]

I don't even have an anti-virus (computer came with McAfee, but since I overwrote WinME I have no protection) but I heard Norton is good and that McAfee sucks.

[kiwinsn]

I have to go along with most and say Nortons is by far the best.
We have clients with McAfee installed that are absolutely riddled, even with updated defs. Nortons picks 'em up every time.Only problem in NZ is that the e-mail protection stuffs up our DUN.
Other than that, a top product which we recommend highly.

[SubZero]

If I were you, I wouldn't adverties that...

Originally posted by Insane Monkey:
I don't even have an anti-virus (computer came with McAfee, but since I overwrote WinME I have no protection) but I heard Norton is good and that McAfee sucks.

[Larommi]

The biggest thing I like about NAV over McAfee is you can still update pretty old versions of NAV and McAfee releases a new version and quit supporting the old one.

[Wismerhill]

thank you all very much

and by the way , we chose Sophos

[TangleWeb]

We use Computer Associates InoculatIT the Server\Client version.

I don't know that it's the best, but they come out with updates very regularly & we have yet to suffer a virus related problem on our 500 user network.

I'm not the support analyst responsible for this product, but the guy who is says their support (Phone) is pretty bad.

[i3omberman28]

Hello <IMG SRC="smilies/redface.gif" border="0">,

Can someone please tell me why kaspersky's avo doesnt gain recognition amongst your selection of av scanners?

It is the best. It finds the most viruses, and even better, it has the latest updates, both daily and monthly!

[TeddyRuxspin]

I find that most people are very loyal to the anti virus products they come in contact with. As I have mainly used Sophos I tend to be slightly biased towards them although I do use Norton as well.
In my experiance the top 5 scanner are all pretty much the same. Some have better features that others dont eg NAV has automatic updating of the Virus updates via the web while Sophos does not and Sophos is easier to manage on a network than NAV hence why at our company we use NAV as defense on Internet stations and special machiens and Sophos on the corporate lan.
The final difference is price. Each of the companies will do there own deal and it depends on how much you can afford. With anti-virus software it is always best to spend that little bit extra!!

[Skywalker93]

I used to use McAfee, but its too much of a hassle to update. Then I switched to Norton 2001, it rocks! Updating is easier, faster and more reliable. If someone needs an Anti-virus program and they are not very computer-friendly, I suggest Norton to them because its so easy to use.

On another note..... does anyone know of an Anti-virus program that works on both Windows 98 and NT 4.0 server? I just started doing some consulting on the side, for a small 4-pc, 1 server network. Found out the virus program on their systems are 3 years old and never been updated! I'd like to try and keep it as inexpensive as possible, but I told them things aren't cheap.

[Iridium x2]

I have tested them all. On simple users computers to servers, and I have to say that right now, as of this date, I stick to AVX. It runs excellent on Win9x, Win2K, etc machines and servers.

here is the URL if you are interested in reading any further :http://www.centralcommand.com/

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[DJSEARCHING]

Mcafee hasn't been good since Bob sold out to network associates.Yes Skywalker,Norton will work on an nt4 server,and win2k.

[jeffbrown]

No one has even remembered Trend Micro? I don't know exactly about desktops, but if you are using an exchange server, Trend Blows everything out of the water? Tested NAV and Trend for Exchange, hands down, took less than an hour after Trend was installed to uninstall NAV trial. Since I have tested desktop a little and it again blows NAV out of the water. Trend Micro has my vote!