Too small to tell really. We rarely generate enough traffic to put a decent load on the device. We did have an issue with a previous update that caused extremely poor performance across all the proxies. It was only noticeable on HTTP of course.
I do not scan all traffic either. I only scan smtp and http from untrusted sites. Bill On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 7:51 AM, <jgarciaitl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Bill songstad > > Cool > Does watch av scanning slow down the wan a bit?? > > Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile > ------------------------------ > *From: *Bill Songstad <bsongs...@gmail.com> > *Date: *Fri, 2 Apr 2010 07:45:57 -0700 > *To: *NT System Admin Issues<ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> > *Subject: *Re: Enterprise Anti-Virus > > Justino, for my gateway, I'm filtering SMTP on my Watchguard Firewall > using their AV add-on. It seems to be based on an AVG product. > > As for malware, no. With the firewall screwed down tight, especially with > the SMTP scanning, I get very little malware activity at all. In reality, I > could probably run without desktop AV at all. But I'm not completely crazy. > > -Bill > > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:13 PM, justino garcia <jgarciaitl...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> what is that gateway av product your using? >> Had you had issues with malware infecting your pcs anyway? >> >> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Bill Songstad <bsongs...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> I Replaced Symantec AV 10 with Vipre earlier this year. I expected the >>> process to be pretty smooth. After all, I had been running Ninja/vipre >>> email for years and loved it. I was sadly disappointed both in the >>> performance of Vipre and the famous Sunbelt tech support. Vipre Server >>> doesn't play well with others. Especially other Sunbelt products. I >>> suppose I could just buy some more server licenses for each Sunbelt product, >>> but I went with Sunbelt because they were good AND affordable. But if you >>> have to add a Windows server license to each install, that dramatically >>> changes the per user cost in a small shop like mine. As it stands now, I >>> have Vipre enterprise running on the same box as Sunbelt Exchange Archiver. >>> Neither product will start with the server. I have to log in manually and >>> start them. >>> >>> On the client side, the email scanning performance for Outlook 2007 was >>> so bad I had to turn it off and purchase a gateway antivirus product to keep >>> my mailboxes clean. Any time you selected items in Outlook 2007 in excess >>> of a hundred or so, like when cleaning out your sent items or deleted items, >>> Outlook 2007 would hang for 10 seconds per hundred items selected. Outlook >>> 2003 was also affected, but not as badly. >>> >>> Support told me that selecting that many items would naturally cause a >>> performance hit and wanted to close the case. I suggested that that was >>> significantly worse performance than Symantec, the yardstick for poor >>> performance, and that I thought one full minute/per thousand emails selected >>> was unacceptable. I even copied my salesperson. That was in January. I >>> haven't heard from anyone. I guess when I said they could close the ticket >>> if they thought hangs like that were acceptable, they thought it was >>> acceptable. I don't, but hey, now I have another product protecting my >>> perimeter. Of course, my price per user trippled... >>> >>> Bill >>> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Ray <rz...@qwest.net> wrote: >>> >>>> I know this has been discussed many times in the past, but I'm going to >>>> ask >>>> again. Our McAfee contract is nearing renewal and we're looking for >>>> alternatives. We have about 4,000 desktops in 20 remote sites. We'd >>>> love >>>> the flexibility of managing everything from centralized console, and >>>> perhaps >>>> even allowing the local sites on-site staff to have access to their own >>>> machines. Not all our pipes are that great, so a distributed model for >>>> .dat >>>> updates would be ideal. >>>> >>>> We are currently evaluating Vipre. Last year we looked at and actually >>>> chose >>>> to buy Nod32, but, well, long story, and it wasn't the vendors fault. >>>> >>>> We're also looking at Trend and Sophos. >>>> >>>> Any feedback on what you have now and why you chose it or are dumping it >>>> would be great. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Ray >>>> >>>> >>>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >>>> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Justin >> IT-TECH >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
