don't know about now, but a few years back Sophos did depend on RPC for deployment from the console
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Harry Singh <hbo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Looking at Sophos now and hope to migrate off SAV Q1 of next year. Not > keen on delivering a/v over GPO, I'm hoping Sophos built-in delivery > doesn't use SMB. > > > On Friday, November 11, 2011, Rod Trent <rodtr...@myitforum.com> wrote: > > Incidentally, Truesec has LMS which allows management of Forefront > without SCCM: > > > > > > > > http://lms.truesec.se/ > > > > > > > > From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] > > Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 8:06 AM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Re: Antivirus Recommendations? > > > > > > > > Oh right. That's a bit more slippery. > > > > On 11 November 2011 13:01, Michael B. Smith <mich...@smithcons.com> > wrote: > > > > No, you don't have to use SCCM to deploy, but SCCM provides the > management of it. if you install it managed, then you need SCCM (or my > previously mentioned third-party product). You can also install it > unmanaged. > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > > > Michael B. Smith > > > > Consultant and Exchange MVP > > > > http://theessentialexchange.com/ > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: James Rankin [kz2...@googlemail.com] > > > > Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 7:36 AM > > > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Re: Antivirus Recommendations? > > > > > > > > SCCM to deploy it? Didn't realise that. Nasty. > > > > > > > > I'm still a fan of Vipre, and Trend's offering isn't too bad, although > the detection rates were not vastly impressive. I tend to look at things > from a XenApp/RDS point of view though so I may dismissing some products > that would be perfectly fine for you on a traditional fat client machine. > > > > On 11 November 2011 12:27, Paul Hutchings <paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk> > wrote: > > > > We actually have Forefront licenses via an MS agreement, I just don’t > think I want to try and get my teeth into SCCM right now just to administer > it (I appreciate that SCCM does all manner of things but YKWIM, it’s a bit > of a monster). > > > > > > > > We do all the defence in depth stuff regards perimiter scanning, URL > blocking etc. > > > > From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] > > Sent: 11 November 2011 12:20 > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Re: Antivirus Recommendations? > > > > > > > > I haven't dealt much with AV over the last year, but I liked Vipre > Enterprise last time I did. However we did move from Symantec so anything > would probably have been a vast improvement. > > > > > > > > I notice a lot of people are fans of the MS offerings now (Forefront, > Security Essentials, etc, don't know the exact current brand names). Truth > be known is that no AV can provide 100% coverage, and the ones that provide > advanced heuristic detection are usually the ones with the bigger > footprints. I'm personally a fan of coupling up your reactive AV with > something like AppLocker from MS, if you're an AD shop, and obviously some > good event log monitoring procedures. 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