I second that emotion... Nanny Nanny boo boo.. We just bought Sybari[1]. Merry Christmas to me! It is posts such as this one (out of about a thousand) that I have printed out and handed copies to my managers to show them that I am not alone in my grief.
[1]Hi Kelly[2] [2]Thanks again for helping me convince my manager. -----Original Message----- From: Martin Reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 2:10 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anit-Virus Software for Exchange HOWEVER... If you do decide to try GroupShield from Network Associates, do NOT, repeat NOT, test it out on a server you care about. Do it on a test server that you build just for the purpose, on a separate network and in a separate Exchange organisation from your production environment. If you can arrange to do it on a separate continent (or better still another planet), that would be even better. ;) Seriously... having looked at several products, GroupShield is the only one that causes lasting damage. You'll spend weeks trying to rid your organisation of it's left-overs (changes to your organisation forms library, just for example) if you try to uninstall it. GroupShield sucks. It's terrible. It is truly awful software. Frankly, it makes Lotus Notes/Domino look like a pretty good piece of code in comparison (one of these days I'll get around to writing up my "Why Notes/Domino Sucks" web site, but I'll need to find an ISP that gives me more than my current 100Mb of web space first to be sure I can fit it all in... <G>). My personal favourite Exchange AntiVirus product is ScanMail. ScanMail is cool. It's completely reliable. It caused me no problems at all in three years. In THREE YEARS (yes, that's thirty-six months), I didn't have any reason to call for support - not once. It just installed, worked well, and caused me no problems. I've heard similar reports about Sybari's Antigen, though I've never tried it myself. I deployed ScanMail to eleven servers spread across a slow WAN and eleven separate countries in just under eleven minutes. It took me four days and approximately twenty calls to NAI "support" to get GroupShield just to install on one Exchange server (OK, the first ten installs were quite smooth, but FOUR DAYS to solve an installation issue on the last one??? Go figure...). I used GroupShield years ago. It sucked then. I was forced to switch from ScanMail back to GroupShield recently against my better judgement (Enterprise licensing deal... I couldn't persuade the pointies that the "free" software thrown in with the big desktop AV software deal was worth exactly what they were paying for it). In the six weeks since then, I have had at least DAILY dealings with NAI "support". And every day, I find a new reason to wish I was still using ScanMail. > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Schnoll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 22 December 2001 19:16 > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Anit-Virus Software for Exchange > > > RE: Anit-Virus Software for ExchangeI vote for Trend Micro's > ScanMail. But > they all have eval versions, so try them all out and decide > for yourself > which one you like best. > > -Scott > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Micciche, Robert > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 11:50 AM > Subject: RE: Anit-Virus Software for Exchange > > > As usual: > A-N-T-I-G-E-N > http://www.sybari.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: liz thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 2:31 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Anit-Virus Software for Exchange > > > We are currently using Norton Anti-Virus for Exchange which > oldly enough > has been working fairly well. My boss, for cost reasons, > wishes to examine > Alternatives. > Can you guys recommend some products? and Which products > sould I try to > tell him "no way, if you want it to work!" on? > So far we have looked at F-Secure. Any other thoughts? > > > Thanks For your comments!!! > Liz > List Charter and FAQ at: > http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm > List Charter and FAQ at: > http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm > > > List Charter and FAQ at: > http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm > > List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
