Which Virus Scanner - LANs..

[Vegito]

I run a fairly large LAN.. we're currently using McAfee virus scanner and we received the newest upgrade v4.5. The upgrade has been a nightmare. When set to scan in/out files, it becomes so slow even on dual 800Mhz with 1GB memory installed. You right click on explorer and it takes exactly 5 second for the menu to pop up.

Realtime data gets delay and nothing works well.

I was looking at InoculateIT or other similar products..

General protection for file in/out, floppy scan on access.
Exchange server protection, scanning message + attachment in and out

Looing for both server and client.
McAfee isn't bad but the new version is so slow that I have to disable it just to work..

 

[Noriaki]

I use Norton AV 2000 Personal at home and it works great.

And we use Norton AV at work as well. I'm not 100% sure what runs on the servers, but my current computer is a P166 with 80MB of RAM (yeah yeah I'm getting a new one in january, I just started here ) and unless I'm stupid enough to actually click the open Norton AV then I don't notice that it's running. On a P166 with 80mb!

Just so you know, we have about 3500 people in our main building here in Calgary and at least several hundred more at various sites around the country, probably well over 1000, and there are many people that have company issued PCs at home.

All told there are probably over 5000 computers here in the company, so NAV scales fairly well.

Those numbers are estimates..there are over 3000 people in the building, the others are rough estimates, I'm on the business systems server team (which are not WinNT servers), we use WTS and VPN with WinNT servers for the users to connect and then my servers communicate mostly with the NT servers in the other room, I don't have anything to do with the PC side at work, so I've just got a rough idea of the numbers...but it's a fair bit.

 

[Ladi]

Norton Enterprise is probably one of the best *overall* solutions available with the added advantage of being able to 'push' virus definition updates (I believe) to client machines. A version to attach to an Exchange server is available.

~Ladi

 

[evanichka]

aye, norton enterprise may be a good choice