[Technical] Antivirus options

[Shaun Turner]

We are using Symantec's product and are finding it quite good. Most know
it's failings, the main one is its somewhat resource hungry - we cant
run it on machines with less that 512mb of ram or it kills the machine.

Haven't had an infection in the place at all to my knowledge with this

Ta

Shaun Turner
Nagle College, Bairnsdale 

-----Original Message-----
From: tech-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:tech-bounces at edulists.com.au]
On Behalf Of Jim Maunder
Sent: Friday, 19 September 2008 8:20 AM
To: Technical Discussion in Schools Mailing List
Subject: RE: [Technical] Antivirus options

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-----
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>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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