Re: Anti-Virus Software

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> From: Justin F. Knox [mailto:jknox@indexzero.org]

I've also worked with SOPHOS. Nice product, VERY lightweight as far as system impact goes, highly clueful tech support: at a now-2-years-dead dotcom I worked for, it identified one of our custom Java applets as viral. With a code sample and a copy of the AV message, they had an updated definitions file to us in 4 hours. . . and pushed it out to the world as well.

My only gripe about them is their automatic definition update and remote installation software were a little kludgy, but that WAS 2 + years ago.

Bottom line: SOPHOS is good people with a good product. We preferred them to Symantec due to a recurring bug with Symantec Corporate Edition that kept crashing our main fileserver every few days. . .  

> I'll have to agree re: CA. CA's software is klunky, and causes no end of

The less said about CA, the better (g)

> McAfee is okay, but I don't much like having to work with ePolicy

We have McAffee on the desktop here, it's alright, but nothing spectacular. . .

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> Trend, I've only worked with on a desktop (consumer rather than corporate).

Their VirusWall product for incoming email is a nice piece of software, and works quite well, from my experience. . .