A few antivirus questions

[FOBSIDE]

I am familiar with Norton Antivirus and Mcafee VirusScarn, but what else is out there as far as antivirus software goes?

Also, I had another question. I would never actually do this, but what if I were to map the root of every drive on my network and have scheduled scannings of all my drives, would that work to protect all the machines on my network from viruses? It seems logical, but I am not sure if it would get all the system files.

Thanks for any help.

 

[Mitzi]

Another anti-virus product worth checking out is the freely available AVG Anti-virus (search Google).

You could indeed remotely scan the network drives though this method wouldn't pickup memory resident or boot sector viri on the remote machines.

 

[Zucarita9000]

Originally posted by: FOBSIDE
I am familiar with Norton Antivirus and Mcafee VirusScarn, but what else is out there as far as antivirus software goes?

Also, I had another question. I would never actually do this, but what if I were to map the root of every drive on my network and have scheduled scannings of all my drives, would that work to protect all the machines on my network from viruses? It seems logical, but I am not sure if it would get all the system files.

Thanks for any help.

You can check out Panda, PC-cillin or.... try a google search. I still believe tha NAV and Mcafee are the best thou...

As far as the drive mapping, it should work. However, you might want to install the antivirus in each PC and schedule a weekly scan or something and enable the Auto-Protection.

 

[FOBSIDE]

Thanks for the replies. Yeah, I would never actually try to map the root of every drive, because that's just a huge security risk. I was just wondering.

 

[Spacehead]

Here's some good ones.

Online scanners

Not sure about the free ones though.
I use MailDefense for email checking(got it when it was still free) along with NAV.