Free AV System for Corporate Use
I know this has been hashed and re-hashed but here is my situation. I work for a school system, that DOES have Norton Corporate on the servers. But seems to balk at the idea of paying for licenses for all the desktop machines so that Norton can actually protect the machines before they infect the server. This I can understand due to there being roughly 5- 10k machines, and that would a huge .... investment. But lately we have been experiencing a great increase in virus activity, notably Welchia. My thought was to find a GOOD completely FREE AV system to install on the desktops that will auto-update without any user(meaning regular users, not admins) intervention and give the users a feeling of protection. The only free systems I know of are Panda and AVG. The question I have of those is, since there are free and paid versions, how have the free version been crippled and what is not available. Is the only difference between the free and paid version is that you get tech support? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Phaeton (previously Phaetos but I seem to have lost my password and can't retrieve that information while at work ;-)