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Old May 14th, 2001, 02:31 AM   #1
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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 .
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Old May 14th, 2001, 03:10 AM   #2
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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.

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Old May 14th, 2001, 04:08 AM   #3
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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.
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Old May 14th, 2001, 04:23 AM   #4
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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.
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Old May 19th, 2001, 05:35 AM   #5
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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.

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Old May 19th, 2001, 06:04 AM   #6
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I've always been a fan of NAV. The NAV 2001 version has my vote!
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Old May 19th, 2001, 12:27 PM   #7
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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.
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Old May 20th, 2001, 10:06 AM   #8
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Now I know that this has been covered more than enough times already, but NAV 2001 Corporate edition.
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Old May 20th, 2001, 08:48 PM   #9
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I would have to agree on the Norton as far as all around features and ease of implementation.
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Old May 21st, 2001, 01:31 PM   #10
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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.
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Old May 21st, 2001, 04:29 PM   #11
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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.
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Old May 21st, 2001, 09:07 PM   #12
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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.
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If I were you, I wouldn't adverties that...

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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.
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Old May 22nd, 2001, 12:15 AM   #14
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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.
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Old June 1st, 2001, 07:26 AM   #15
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thank you all very much

and by the way , we chose Sophos
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