Antivirus Solution for Desktops

[Miguel Koren O'Brien de Lacy]

Sorry, I meant to address this to Marco.

Miguel

Miguel Koren O'Brien de Lacy wrote:

> Sanjay;
>
> f-Prot is hard to beat in terms of price and resource usage and we've 
> found it's protection on par with other solutions. It just lacks 
> sophisticated management tools, but central updating and install is 
> available. Just for your info, to place my opinion in perspective, we 
> resell f-Prot in Brazil. But taking that into account, the reason we 
> resell it is exactly that.
>
> Miguel
>
> Sanjay K. Patel wrote:
>
>> CA etrust is only $14 bucks regardless of server or workstation and 
>> can be
>> centrally managed. Panda comes in second.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On 
>> Behalf
>> Of Marco Obaid
>> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 12:56 AM
>> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>> Subject: OT: Antivirus Solution for Desktops
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am evaluating my options to migrate our users' AV desktop 
>> protection from
>> Command AV to another product. Can any of you recommend a Desktop AV
>> solution to be deployed to around 1000 PCs (95% running windows)?
>>
>> The most important criteria to me are:
>>
>> * The AV software has to be light weight in resource-consumption.
>>  The product we are currently using literally consumes over 70% of
>> resources.
>>  (users are not happy)
>>
>> * Ease of maintenance in terms of pushing updates/new definitions from
>>  a centeralized server. (we don't care too much about the bells and
>> whistles)
>>
>> * Reasonable cost. (not too expensive, not too cheap)
>>
>> * Finally, good techincal support record.
>>
>> Within those boundries, what would you recommend based on your 
>> experience?
>>
>>
>> Thank you for any input and my apologies for posting a non-MS related 
>> topic.
>> Marco
>>
>>  
>>
>
>



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