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Guest Stephen
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This may be an odd question but are there any free antivirus solutions out

there for Server 2003?

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Guest Tom Willett
Posted

Re: Antivirus

 

No.

 

"Stephen" <nospam@nospam.no> wrote in message

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Posted

Re: Antivirus

 

It's not free but you can buy Symantec Corporate Edition 10.2 from Techsoup

at a very low cost for a qualifying non profit organization.

"Stephen" <nospam@nospam.no> wrote in message

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> This may be an odd question but are there any free antivirus solutions out

> there for Server 2003?

>

Guest Ryan Hanisco
Posted

RE: Antivirus

 

Antivirus is one area you don't want to short yourself on. You do get what

you pay for and you don't want to put your environment in the hands of

software that isn't kept to the highest standards.

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Ryan Hanisco

MCSE, MCTS: SQL 2005, Project+

Chicago, IL

 

Remember: Marking helpful answers helps everyone find the info they need

quickly.

 

 

"Stephen" wrote:

> This may be an odd question but are there any free antivirus solutions out

> there for Server 2003?

>

>

>

Guest Haovard via WinServerKB.com
Posted

Re: Antivirus

 

Stepehn,

 

as said, do not "save" some money on buying antivirus. Antivirus programs

uses the same pattern databases, but there are differente ways of removing

the antivirus. We are using Trend Officescan in our enviorement(aprox 800

users). The good thing about this produckt is the management and the

opertunity to monitor the clients(what pattern, scan engine etc.). Also, this

product has built in ad-aware removing support, which have become very

helpful.

 

 

 

Stephen wrote:

>This may be an odd question but are there any free antivirus solutions out

>there for Server 2003?

 

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Guest Ryan Hanisco
Posted

Re: Antivirus

 

Every product has its sweet spot. I can tell you that Trend is often the

first to report and detect a virus these days. Unfortunately, I have seen it

fail in large environments as it alerts as to the existence of the virus, but

cannot correctly remove it.

 

I have been going with ePolicy Orchestrator (McAfee ePO) as it does do a

good job, even if it lage by a day on the detection. I would rather have the

threat fixed than know that I have a problem as my team watches the network

fall to pieces.

 

Every few years, each virus company reorgs and becomes the best for one

thing or another, so it isn't safe to assume the best one 5 years ago is the

best one today. You do have to reevaluate every few years.

--

Ryan Hanisco

MCSE, MCTS: SQL 2005, Project+

Chicago, IL

 

Remember: Marking helpful answers helps everyone find the info they need

quickly.

 

 

"Haovard via WinServerKB.com" wrote:

> Stepehn,

>

> as said, do not "save" some money on buying antivirus. Antivirus programs

> uses the same pattern databases, but there are differente ways of removing

> the antivirus. We are using Trend Officescan in our enviorement(aprox 800

> users). The good thing about this produckt is the management and the

> opertunity to monitor the clients(what pattern, scan engine etc.). Also, this

> product has built in ad-aware removing support, which have become very

> helpful.

>

>

>

> Stephen wrote:

> >This may be an odd question but are there any free antivirus solutions out

> >there for Server 2003?

>

> --

> Message posted via http://www.winserverkb.com

>

>

Posted

Re: Antivirus

 

Symantec Corporate Edition AV works very reliably for my clients and many

others. It is not "software that isn't kept to the highest standards".

"Ryan Hanisco" <RyanHanisco@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> Antivirus is one area you don't want to short yourself on. You do get

> what

> you pay for and you don't want to put your environment in the hands of

> software that isn't kept to the highest standards.

> --

> Ryan Hanisco

> MCSE, MCTS: SQL 2005, Project+

> Chicago, IL

>

> Remember: Marking helpful answers helps everyone find the info they need

> quickly.

>

>

> "Stephen" wrote:

>

>> This may be an odd question but are there any free antivirus solutions

>> out

>> there for Server 2003?

>>

>>

>>

Guest Ryan Hanisco
Posted

Re: Antivirus

 

dan,

 

I absolutely agree. I have used the product in some environments back to

version 7.6 and it has a good track record. It is easy to use and deploy and

work well in a number of scenarios.

 

My response was to the previous poster and not disparaging against SAV at all.

--

Ryan Hanisco

MCSE, MCTS: SQL 2005, Project+

Chicago, IL

 

Remember: Marking helpful answers helps everyone find the info they need

quickly.

 

 

"dan" wrote:

> Symantec Corporate Edition AV works very reliably for my clients and many

> others. It is not "software that isn't kept to the highest standards".

> "Ryan Hanisco" <RyanHanisco@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:76660598-978A-49FA-AD8C-E83F17EECB4F@microsoft.com...

> > Antivirus is one area you don't want to short yourself on. You do get

> > what

> > you pay for and you don't want to put your environment in the hands of

> > software that isn't kept to the highest standards.

> > --

> > Ryan Hanisco

> > MCSE, MCTS: SQL 2005, Project+

> > Chicago, IL

> >

> > Remember: Marking helpful answers helps everyone find the info they need

> > quickly.

> >

> >

> > "Stephen" wrote:

> >

> >> This may be an odd question but are there any free antivirus solutions

> >> out

> >> there for Server 2003?

> >>

> >>

> >>

>

>

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