I'm looking for a decent AV package for MS Exchange 5.5.
My company has used McAfee Groupshield, but whenever we reboot the
exchange server , it locks attachments for a few days for random
individuals, and as luck would have it, 99% of the time it's our CEO.

I've downloaded a trial copy of AVG, and was happy with that, but the
exchange engine tends to hang, and stop scanning. Their tech support
is stumped. So, now my search continues.

I also downloaded a demo of Panda, but when I was speaking to a rep,
she suggested that I not use the demo on a production box, as its
severly crippled. That, and the high price I was quoted, turned me
off.

I'm open to suggestions of where to go next. I would prefer if the
vendor had some kind of trial or demo I could use to test it out, or
at least a money back guarantee (even if it's only a 30 day one ) in
case I'm not happy.

Thank you in advance for any suggestions,

Gene Senyszyn

www.sophos.com

IMNSHO the best network AV software available.

"Gene Senyszyn" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm looking for a decent AV package for MS Exchange 5.5.
> My company has used McAfee Groupshield, but whenever we reboot the
> exchange server , it locks attachments for a few days for random
> individuals, and as luck would have it, 99% of the time it's our CEO.
>
> I've downloaded a trial copy of AVG, and was happy with that, but the
> exchange engine tends to hang, and stop scanning. Their tech support
> is stumped. So, now my search continues.
>
> I also downloaded a demo of Panda, but when I was speaking to a rep,
> she suggested that I not use the demo on a production box, as its
> severly crippled. That, and the high price I was quoted, turned me
> off.
>
> I'm open to suggestions of where to go next. I would prefer if the
> vendor had some kind of trial or demo I could use to test it out, or
> at least a money back guarantee (even if it's only a 30 day one ) in
> case I'm not happy.
>
> Thank you in advance for any suggestions,
>
> Gene Senyszyn

"Gene Senyszyn" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm looking for a decent AV package for MS Exchange 5.5.
> My company has used McAfee Groupshield, but whenever we reboot the
> exchange server , it locks attachments for a few days for random
> individuals, and as luck would have it, 99% of the time it's our CEO.
>
> I've downloaded a trial copy of AVG, and was happy with that, but the
> exchange engine tends to hang, and stop scanning. Their tech support
> is stumped. So, now my search continues.
>
> I also downloaded a demo of Panda, but when I was speaking to a rep,
> she suggested that I not use the demo on a production box, as its
> severly crippled. That, and the high price I was quoted, turned me
> off.
>
> I'm open to suggestions of where to go next. I would prefer if the
> vendor had some kind of trial or demo I could use to test it out, or
> at least a money back guarantee (even if it's only a 30 day one ) in
> case I'm not happy.
>
> Thank you in advance for any suggestions,
>
> Gene Senyszyn

Hi Gene
I would recommend either Sophos or F-Secure. Both have a good detection
capability and are updated several times daily and have superb
administration features. Sophos has less impact on system performance than
F-Secure, and has superior technical support. F-Secure is very slow and
bloated, but cheaper than Sophos.
www.sophos.com
www.f-secure.com

-Richard H

"Richard H" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:bv57t7$ftf$(E-Mail Removed):

>
> "Gene Senyszyn" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news(E-Mail Removed)...
>> I'm looking for a decent AV package for MS Exchange 5.5.
>> My company has used McAfee Groupshield, but whenever we reboot the
>> exchange server , it locks attachments for a few days for random
>> individuals, and as luck would have it, 99% of the time it's our CEO.
>>
>> I've downloaded a trial copy of AVG, and was happy with that, but the
>> exchange engine tends to hang, and stop scanning. Their tech support
>> is stumped. So, now my search continues.
>>
>> I also downloaded a demo of Panda, but when I was speaking to a rep,
>> she suggested that I not use the demo on a production box, as its
>> severly crippled. That, and the high price I was quoted, turned me
>> off.
>>
>> I'm open to suggestions of where to go next. I would prefer if the
>> vendor had some kind of trial or demo I could use to test it out, or
>> at least a money back guarantee (even if it's only a 30 day one ) in
>> case I'm not happy.
>>
>> Thank you in advance for any suggestions,
>>
>> Gene Senyszyn
>
> Hi Gene
> I would recommend either Sophos or F-Secure. Both have a good
> detection capability and are updated several times daily and have
> superb administration features. Sophos has less impact on system
> performance than F-Secure, and has superior technical support.
> F-Secure is very slow and bloated, but cheaper than Sophos.
> www.sophos.com
> www.f-secure.com
>
> -Richard H
>
>
>

Not that I doubt you but F-Secure is a real piece of work with my
encounters with it from worms knocking the thing out on the machines at
work to NT based machines doing blue-screens all over the place because
of F-Secure.

The company went back to Norton on the servers and workstations. Oh well,
I am not a big fan of Norton either, but at least workstations are not
crashing all over the place.

www.nod32.com

Duane

In article <Xns947D3D66D10CCdarnold92insightbbco@63.240.76.16>,
(E-Mail Removed) says...
> "Richard H" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:bv57t7$ftf$(E-Mail Removed):
>
> >
> > "Gene Senyszyn" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> I'm looking for a decent AV package for MS Exchange 5.5.
> >> My company has used McAfee Groupshield, but whenever we reboot the
> >> exchange server , it locks attachments for a few days for random
> >> individuals, and as luck would have it, 99% of the time it's our CEO.
> >>
> >> I've downloaded a trial copy of AVG, and was happy with that, but the
> >> exchange engine tends to hang, and stop scanning. Their tech support
> >> is stumped. So, now my search continues.
> >>
> >> I also downloaded a demo of Panda, but when I was speaking to a rep,
> >> she suggested that I not use the demo on a production box, as its
> >> severly crippled. That, and the high price I was quoted, turned me
> >> off.
> >>
> >> I'm open to suggestions of where to go next. I would prefer if the
> >> vendor had some kind of trial or demo I could use to test it out, or
> >> at least a money back guarantee (even if it's only a 30 day one ) in
> >> case I'm not happy.
> >>
> >> Thank you in advance for any suggestions,
> >>
> >> Gene Senyszyn
> >
> > Hi Gene
> > I would recommend either Sophos or F-Secure. Both have a good
> > detection capability and are updated several times daily and have
> > superb administration features. Sophos has less impact on system
> > performance than F-Secure, and has superior technical support.
> > F-Secure is very slow and bloated, but cheaper than Sophos.
> > www.sophos.com
> > www.f-secure.com
> >
> > -Richard H
> >
> >
> >
>
> Not that I doubt you but F-Secure is a real piece of work with my
> encounters with it from worms knocking the thing out on the machines at
> work to NT based machines doing blue-screens all over the place because
> of F-Secure.
>

[Snip]

In five years of use on 150 workstations and servers I've never had a
major problem with F-Secure. IIRC you organization was running an
outdated improperly configured version of FSAV when the worm thing
happened.

You can the thread @:
<http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
&threadm=z6Ya9.267195%24UU1.45777%40sccrnsc03&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%
3DF-secure%2Bgroup:alt.comp.anti-virus%2Bauthoruane%2Bauthor:Arnold%
26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26selm%3Dz6Ya9.267195%
2524UU1.45777%2540sccrnsc03%26rnum%3D1>

--
Cheers-

Jeff Setaro
jasetaro <at> mags.net
http://people.mags.net/jasetaro/
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