The virus vendors have mixed success handling the latest virus. By having multiple vendors, you're hoping at least one of them has the latest def. The down side of course is having to deal with multiple vendors.
-----Original Message----- From: John Riley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 7:26 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Antivirus add-ons for Exchange 5.5 - trends/nav Trends is always a top product. Here we use Antigen and it's super--it's an Exchange server only product and it rocks!!!! I am not sure there is an issue using two different virus products. I'd be interested to see what others have to say. JRiley ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jesse Rink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MS-Exchange Admin Issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 10:06 AM Subject: Antivirus add-ons for Exchange 5.5 - trends/nav > We currently use Symantec AntiVirus for the Enterprise on our desktop and > have had good success to date. Our Exchange server currently does NOT > have an Antivirus add-on installed. I would like to see some kind of > scanning software on the box for additional protection. > > Since we already have NAV for the Enterprise, we have a copy of NAV for > Exchange as well. This would not cost any additional funds to get this > extra protection. However, I am under the impression it's always a good > idea to put a different piece of antivirus software on the Exchange server > as opposed to the desktop to minimize the amount of time to retrieve > updated virus definitions. In other words, if I have both NAV and Trends > installed and a virus breaks out, Trends may have the definitions before > NAV so we'd be better covered than if we had NAV on our Exchange server. > > Unfortunately Trends costs about $5000 or so (we have 350 Exchange users). > Has anyone used both of these products and can help me determine whether > the additional cost is worth the piece of mind? Personally I'd like to > see it happen and get Trends but I'm trying to justify the cost as opposed > to an already-free solution. > > Thanks. > > 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
