Best Corporate AV?

Mr E

We have Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition (v7.51) installed, and I think its time to upgrade (its 5 years old at this stage). The definitions are still updating, but I don't trust it..... I imagine newer = faster and more reliable.

What is the best corporate antivirus software available? It needs to work on Exchange Server, and have about 15 licenses for separate machines....

Thanks in advance....

smeggle

Check out the AVG corparate solution - Works with exchange server. Licenses you would need to discuss with them.

www.grisoft.com

pm me and I'll give you the e-mail of a colluege[sp?] of mine who uses it in a network/excgange server enviroment if you'd like a more in-depth review. He's better placed to advice you better on it than myself. I do know he's used it as his corparate solution for a few years now and he initially recommended it to me.

I would certainly be very cautious or as untrusting as you are with Norton. It has allways had a hard time dealing with trojans and faired very poorly against the first onslaught of Internet Worms.

Panda would be another good option as a replacement and whilst I have not used it personally, I do use there online scanner as a secondary benchmark for AVG. reviews I have read have allways seen it in a favourable light.

daywalker

smeggle wrote:

I would certainly be very cautious or as untrusting as you are with Norton. It has allways had a hard time dealing with trojans and faired very poorly against the first onslaught of Internet Worms.

Norton may have faired poorly against the first onslaught of internet worms, but that doesnt necessarily mean that that is the case now, both Norton and McAfee (and F-secure) have always scored highly as AV scanners, according to independant internet security firms. Now Norton is a resource hogger, i admit, i'd use McAfee myself. In pc magazine articles that i've seen AVG never really fared that well against the full onslaught of viruses out there, if i remember the last article i saw, it was 1.F-secure, 2.Norton and 3.McAfee, whereas AVG scored in the 60-70% range.

Board@Work

We use NOD32 here at work. Try www.nod32.ie and have a look. We have never had a moments problem with it so I would recommend it.

daywalker

a good place to check out the protection of all the AV on the market is

http://www.virusbtn.com

they do tests each month with each AV software against the viruses, in the wild, on different OS, and gives either a pass/fail/No-Entry grade, depending on the performance of the AV software

Blub2k4

daywalker wrote:

a good place to check out the protection of all the AV on the market is

http://www.virusbtn.com

they do tests each month with each AV software against the viruses, in the wild, on different OS, and gives either a pass/fail/No-Entry grade, depending on the performance of the AV software

My God man, in place of rumour (in the form of a friend of a friend) you are providing fact, what were you thinking?

conor-mr2

Blub2k4 wrote:

My God man, in place of rumour (in the form of a friend of a friend) you are providing fact, what were you thinking?

Haha!!! Bring back friend of a friend!!

No seriously Virus Bulletin is very good.

smeggle

daywalker wrote:

Norton may have faired poorly against the first onslaught of internet worms, but that doesnt necessarily mean that that is the case now, both Norton and McAfee (and F-secure) have always scored highly as AV scanners, according to independant internet security firms. Now Norton is a resource hogger, i admit, i'd use McAfee myself. In pc magazine articles that i've seen AVG never really fared that well against the full onslaught of viruses out there, if i remember the last article i saw, it was 1.F-secure, 2.Norton and 3.McAfee, whereas AVG scored in the 60-70% range.

What have you been reading I wonder?

Thats why they get a 100% Vbulletin pass, I suppose. or maybe you don't read these articles
Article

That flaw covers all Norton platforms on all Operating Systems basically..

Computers are at risk if they run an unpatched version of a Symantec product that scans files to detect malicious code and if they use the Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris and AIX operating systems, Symantec said.

Systems mainly affected

The vulnerability affects an antivirus library used by the majority of Symantec's antivirus and antispam products, including Norton SystemWorks 2004 and Symantec Mail Security for Exchange,

And then we have Norton 2005 AV - this one is annoying me as this affects a lot of home users.
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Symantec has admitted its flagship consumer security application, Norton AntiVirus 2005, has a security vulnerability that allows certain types of malicious script to infect a user's personal computer with a virus. However, a Symantec spokesperson told ZDNet Australia that the flaw was not a threat to users because it only affected systems that are running Windows with administrator rights.

And it's that comment which annoys me the most. Case Scenario.

Person go's to shop - buy's 'Off the Shelf' computer. Takes home, plugs every thing in and switches on - computer boots to a 'Default Administrators Account'. They then somehow figure how to get online. There heading towards Zombieville as I write....

McAfee does however deserve a mention - it works yes, but while it does work nothing else will (Or will work very poorly)...

Only problem I've ever seen anyone have with AVG was difficulty in how to use the interface. Zone Alarm and Kerio were the only firewalls that did stop the first of the Internet worms and have done ever since. I wonder then why the 'Pay for it mob', as I call them still have such a hard problem with it?

egan007

Actually I liked AVG until it missed a glaring obvious virus.
It actually failed to find a blaster worm with NAV found on a system.
My brother is a sys admin - this word had been bouncing around the system for days (they have AVG) installed NAV and it caught it in seconds.....

dregin

We use Mc Afee here in a deal running into 6 figure numbers (just showing the scale of the operation). It's never given us any problem and it updates from DAT files on our own servers, meaning viruses/worms denying access to the mc afee update servers wont affect us.

daywalker

smeggle wrote:

What have you been reading I wonder?

I view articles in different PC mags, PC Format, PC Mag, Computer Shopper, to name a few, and i also check online articles, but i dont get to read everything.

smeggle wrote:

That flaw covers all Norton platforms on all Operating Systems basically..

when running an unpatched version of norton, and if i remember, norton prompts for updates fairly glaringly, so its unlikely most users will be affected considering the age of the article.

smeggle wrote:

McAfee does however deserve a mention - it works yes, but while it does work nothing else will (Or will work very poorly)...

Only problem I've ever seen anyone have with AVG was difficulty in how to use the interface. Zone Alarm and Kerio were the only firewalls that did stop the first of the Internet worms and have done ever since. I wonder then why the 'Pay for it mob', as I call them still have such a hard problem with it?

Do you work for AVG, or is it your life's mission to plug AVG for all its worth, while shooting down other AV products.

And the problem with Zonealarm is that some of the updates Zonelabs bring out block off all internet access, plus zonealarm has problems with P2P(not just warez), and just try unistalling it, what a fcuking nightmare. :mad:

and in most cases, people are using the free version, not the paid-for version, so i dont see how you can call them the "Pay for it Mob"

Asok

The environment I work in is a very large organisation. There is a full nav corporate environment. Now while I'm not a very big fan of nav I have to say it does a very good job. I can't remember any occasion where it has missed something only in one or two cases where the users c drive was full and it couldnt install the updates.

hmmm

Best corporate AV is the one with the best management console imnsho.

Martyr

Apparently, Kaspersky is best.
I read on "Security Expert Pro Monthly" just the other day, that Kaspersky was voted top product for known and unknown viruses.
Its endorsed by most security experts.

Kali

We've recently moved from TrendMicro OfficeScan to Sophos (back in April).. my impressions over the past few months is that its quite solid, unintrusive in terms of processor usage etc., management console isn't the best, I find it very slow (but its on an older PC anyway). Numbers of viruses caught have been very small, and the majority have been false positives, updates are quick & regular and unlike officescan, are very quick to propogate throughout the company (officescan required a login script to update).

In terms of protecting mail servers, I use a clamav/spamassassin gateway in front of our exchange server and internal mail relays... does the job exponentially better than TrendMicro's IMSS, which frequently failed, and was only catching ~5% spam and 80% of viruses (which meant another, expensive, layer of protection on the Exchange server).