[Technical] Antivirus options

[Jim Maunder]

We've gone for Sophos too. CA eTrust let us down like Greg said - in 
particular with those things that spread themselves from USB devices.

Sophos have a standalone cleaner that works ok for already infected 
machines. However, the best way to deal with infected lappies is to 
re-image them, as the disruption it causes the student or teacher is 
less than the annoyance of the infection.

As a stopgap measure we used the free version of AVG8 
http://www.avg.com.au and that worked better than eTrust. We have not 
set up a sig. distribution server for either yet, that's a job for 
the boss when he gets back. In the meantime a few extra Mb of 
downloads seems worth the extra protection.

btw at home I use NOD32, or ESET http://www.nod32.com.au/ not too 
hard to set up and they claim superior detection rates.

rgds
Jim


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Jim Maunder
Laptop and PC Support Technician
Ruyton Girls School
Melbourne, Australia
ph 03 9290 9374




At 04:40 PM 18/09/2008, you wrote:
>We are currently evaluating Sophos Enterprise Console, as we need to 
>manage installs and updates to 500+ laptops as well as 120+ 
>desktops. We have been extremely underwhelmed by CA eTrust and it's 
>inability to stop infections or detect a growing range of trojans. 
>Sophos also allows for the management of p2p, IM and other 
>applications while they on the network, although to what degree and 
>at what cost we are still looking into. Whether or not we settle on 
>Sophos, we will be phasing CA out in favour of something that actually works.
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: tech-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of James Poulos
>Sent: Thu 9/18/2008 4:13 PM
>To: tech at edulists.com.au
>Subject: [Technical] Antivirus options
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>Hi all,
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>       Our CA eTrust AV maintenance is up soon and I was wondering if
>anyone had a different product they used that they would recommend that
>I might compare with.
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>Thanks,
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>James
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