Antivirus software

  • Thread starter Thread starter bronners
  • Start date Start date
B

bronners

I am in the process of updating my company's anti virus sofware (12 of
us). Have been using Mcafee ASAP but the company who supplied it to
us are now with Computer Associate who are offering us a deal on
eTrust. Does anyone have a view on how good they are or whether we
should be looking to go with someone like Panda? We have a firewall
(Sonicwall)and would be looking at protecting the desktops and server.
Any advice, recommendations, useful links to sites that compare
antivirus software would also be good.

Thanks
 
bronners said:
I am in the process of updating my company's anti virus sofware (12 of
us). Have been using Mcafee ASAP but the company who supplied it to
us are now with Computer Associate who are offering us a deal on
eTrust. Does anyone have a view on how good they are or whether we
should be looking to go with someone like Panda? We have a firewall
(Sonicwall)and would be looking at protecting the desktops and server.
Any advice, recommendations, useful links to sites that compare
antivirus software would also be good.
Click to expand...

Have a look at Sophos, installs on your server and automatically
updates all the workstations.

www.sophos.com
 
bronners said:
I am in the process of updating my company's anti virus sofware (12 of
us). Have been using Mcafee ASAP but the company who supplied it to
us are now with Computer Associate who are offering us a deal on
eTrust. Does anyone have a view on how good they are or whether we
should be looking to go with someone like Panda? We have a firewall
(Sonicwall)and would be looking at protecting the desktops and server.
Any advice, recommendations, useful links to sites that compare
antivirus software would also be good.

Thanks
Click to expand...
I use eTrust personal at home, works ok for me and at US$10 per year it's
about the cheapest. Sophos and Kaspersky (sp?) are probably the best out
there, but definitely not cheap.
 
I am in the process of updating my company's anti virus sofware (12 of
us). Have been using Mcafee ASAP but the company who supplied it to
us are now with Computer Associate who are offering us a deal on
eTrust. Does anyone have a view on how good they are or whether we
should be looking to go with someone like Panda? We have a firewall
(Sonicwall)and would be looking at protecting the desktops and server.
Any advice, recommendations, useful links to sites that compare
antivirus software would also be good.

Thanks
Click to expand...

You might find these sites of interest.

Good luck,
BillR

----------
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,285004,00.asp
Follow "click here to view" links to comparison tables

http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,110654,00.asp
http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,110654,pg,3,00.asp
http://www.pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/images/zoom/09-03_pestzappers1.gif

http://www.hackfix.org
http://www.hackfix.org/miscfix/icons-av-all.shtml

http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/main-nf.htm
(some info is dated, but quite comprehensive)

http://antivirus.about.com/

IBM Anti-Virus Online Resource
http://www.research.ibm.com/antivirus/SciPapers.htm

Virus Bulletin Magazine
http://www.virusbtn.com/
Comparative virus detection tests of the WildList viruses.

ICSA's Virus Labs
http://www.icsalabs.com/html/communities/antivirus/index.shtml
Comparative reviews of anti-virus software. List of ICSA-Certified
software

Tampere University (Finland)
Virus Research Unit
http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/virus/
Exhaustive comparative reviews of anti-virus software

Westcoast Labs / Checkmark
http://www.westcoast.com/checkmark/
Comparative reviews of anti-virus software

AV-TEST.org
http://www.av-test.org/
----------
 
Back
Top