Actually if factoring cost into the factor I wouldn't suggest looking at McAfee's product. Not that it is bad, but after going through a through review process of Trend, McAfee, Norton, and Sophos their price was just below Trend the most expensive.
We chose Sophos and they do have a management console. Granted it is a MMC snap-in, but it doesn't require the overhead that McAfee's product did. Only the Windows9x clients needed a 'agent' installed on the PC for Sophos while McAfee requires it on any computer it is going to manage. Take a look at the Enterprise Manager from Sophos, I feel it is a great product. Jeff -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 11:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Anit-Virus Software Cost is probably going to be a factor. Mcafee has a product in addition to VirusScan that you can use to manage all hosts from a single console. It's E-Policy Orchestrator. I don't believe Sophos has anything except reporting. Not sure about Trend Micro. If you want to be adventurous, you can manage it all through scripting. Regards, =========================================== Justin Andrusk Information Security Progressive Insurance Phone : 440-395-0630 =========================================== |---------+---------------------------> | | "John Roberts" | | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | p.com> | | | | | | 08/05/2003 03:28| | | PM | | | Please respond | | | to roberts | | | | |---------+---------------------------> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------| | | | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | cc: | | Subject: Anit-Virus Software | >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------| I need to set up some anti-virus software for our company. We have about 15 people running windows, a windows 2003 file server and possibly and exchange server, and over the next two years we will grow to around 100 employees. Basically, I want virus software that I can manage from one console, and will do a good job of finding viruses. I'd prefer to have the file server and exchange server be able to be managed by the same console, but if not I can live with it. I've been looking at Norton and Panda, but am looking for some real world opinions. John roberts --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------