Which AV solution has your company chosen?
Submitted by anastasiosm on Fri 24 Aug 2007
| ClamAV |
   55% | 344 votes |
| Kaspersky |
7% | 44 votes |
| AVG |
7% | 47 votes |
| Sophos |
3% | 21 votes |
| McAfee |
6% | 39 votes |
| Panda |
0% | 4 votes |
| Symantec |
6% | 41 votes |
| Other |
12% | 77 votes |
| Total 617 votes |
Symantec Corporate Edition for Windows desktops and servers. TrendMicro for Exchange (arrrgghhhh!!!!) mailservers.
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Posted by Steve (82.32.xx.xx) on Sun 26 Aug 2007 at 11:38
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I guess if you were concerned about exposing Exchange you could use a proxy in front of it - I've done that in the past, more for paranoia than for any real technical reason.
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We don't run Exchange exposed to the Internet. I just run one of the multiples Exchange servers of the corporation/company where i work. I don't really know the architecture but I think the master Exchange server is the one which forwards to the others, it is the domain.tld AD (active directory) master and my servers are on the sub.domain.tld AD level but with e-mails at @domain.tld. Moreover, there is an antispam (Barracuda) on the entry, which I think it acts as a proxy: i'm not very familiar with e-mails architecture.
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I work freelance, so it depends who I'm currently working for. Students on Windows don't like paying for AV so end up with AVG free, and then calling me when it fails to detect viruses.
Sophos used to be great, and so a couple of companies I deal with still use it. I stopped recommending it a couple of years ago when some upgrades had major issues for us but have failed to get these people to change and instead spent ages mitigating the problems.
ClamAV is perfect for mail filters, but all-Windows shops get scared of having a Linux box sitting between their Exchange server and the outside world in case it breaks.
Nod32 is by far my favourite for individuals willing to pay though, it's caught an incredible amount of stuff I've thrown at it. McAfee has also done a good job for me in the past, but I'm just more comfortable using Nod.
I've had a few clients want to use Symantec in the past, but it's always caused more problems than it's worth for me - usually with failing to run updates. It's reached the stage now that I'll automatically uninstall it on new machines to save problems later.
Sophos used to be great, and so a couple of companies I deal with still use it. I stopped recommending it a couple of years ago when some upgrades had major issues for us but have failed to get these people to change and instead spent ages mitigating the problems.
ClamAV is perfect for mail filters, but all-Windows shops get scared of having a Linux box sitting between their Exchange server and the outside world in case it breaks.
Nod32 is by far my favourite for individuals willing to pay though, it's caught an incredible amount of stuff I've thrown at it. McAfee has also done a good job for me in the past, but I'm just more comfortable using Nod.
I've had a few clients want to use Symantec in the past, but it's always caused more problems than it's worth for me - usually with failing to run updates. It's reached the stage now that I'll automatically uninstall it on new machines to save problems later.
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At my company, when we really, really need to be sure that something is clean, we run it through multiple command line scanners, including:
McAfee
Trend
Kaspersky
Sophos
Computer Associates
F-Prot
In addition to that, some of us (myself included) run ClamAV on our Debian desktop boxes.
What company do I work for? McAfee. I would imagine that the other big players in the security industry do the same. It's security in depth. Anything less would be reckless.
McAfee
Trend
Kaspersky
Sophos
Computer Associates
F-Prot
In addition to that, some of us (myself included) run ClamAV on our Debian desktop boxes.
What company do I work for? McAfee. I would imagine that the other big players in the security industry do the same. It's security in depth. Anything less would be reckless.
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Another method of scanning with multiple engines is the web-based VirusTotal which lets you upload or email a file for scanning.
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nod32
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At work we use to use Sophos but we have recently been required to change to Symantec because it's (parent)-company policy.
At home I use to run Norton AV until it expired then I used the free version of F-Prot and finally I gave up when I migrated to Linux full time. For over a year I had no AV provision at home nor any need of it.
When I migrated off a shared Apache server to a virtual server, I implemented ClamAV on my email for me and my family - but as we all run Debian I only did it because I could not because it was required. I'm happy to be running ClamAV as it turns out it's a pretty good phishing filter too!
We get virus outbreaks at work now and then but I've not seen a virus at home in years and I can't say I've dealt with one since I was an undergraduate back in the days of DOS/Windows 3.1.
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"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam
At home I use to run Norton AV until it expired then I used the free version of F-Prot and finally I gave up when I migrated to Linux full time. For over a year I had no AV provision at home nor any need of it.
When I migrated off a shared Apache server to a virtual server, I implemented ClamAV on my email for me and my family - but as we all run Debian I only did it because I could not because it was required. I'm happy to be running ClamAV as it turns out it's a pretty good phishing filter too!
We get virus outbreaks at work now and then but I've not seen a virus at home in years and I can't say I've dealt with one since I was an undergraduate back in the days of DOS/Windows 3.1.
--
"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam
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Posted by Anonymous (83.23.xx.xx) on Wed 29 Aug 2007 at 19:47
ClamAV for Debian (mail)
Avast for Windows (XP, W2003)
Avast for Windows (XP, W2003)
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