Free for win2ksrv?

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When Grisoft announced they will no longer support AVG6, I downloaded 7 and
discovered they made it so it will not install on Server without purchasing
it. Does anyone know of a free AV solution for 2k? I liked AVG. I think it's
one of the best. Also it was fast in both access and full scan.

I wish there was a way to get around this, but I guess Grisoft just assumes
that if you're running a Server then you must be a business. I guess I can't
really blame them though. :-(

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
-Dr.X
 
Dr.X said:
When Grisoft announced they will no longer support AVG6, I downloaded 7 and
discovered they made it so it will not install on Server without purchasing
it. Does anyone know of a free AV solution for 2k? I liked AVG. I think it's
one of the best. Also it was fast in both access and full scan.
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I guess it wont do you much good to learn that you are not alone with
this problem. I also habe Win2ksrv installed for non-sever use and don
really liek to deinstall a running system. It looks like all the other
Free-for-home-use Scanners have the same limitation, though. At least
when it comes to resident On-Access Protection. Did you come to any
soulution by now ?

snowball
 
Dr.X said:
When Grisoft announced they will no longer support AVG6, I downloaded 7 and
discovered they made it so it will not install on Server without purchasing
it. Does anyone know of a free AV solution for 2k? I liked AVG. I think it's
one of the best. Also it was fast in both access and full scan.
Click to expand...

Actually, I ran into a solution by now. Your Win2kSrv can pretend to
be a Workstation for the installation process. This requires just some
small temporary changes to the registry - which you can find for
yourself or let a small tool named NTSwitch do for you. Looks a bit
weird but worked for me.
 
sn0wball said:
"Dr.X" <[email protected]> wrote in message

I guess it wont do you much good to learn that you are not alone with
this problem. I also habe Win2ksrv installed for non-sever use and don
really liek to deinstall a running system. It looks like all the other
Free-for-home-use Scanners have the same limitation, though. At least
when it comes to resident On-Access Protection. Did you come to any
soulution by now ?

snowball
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Hi Snowball.

No, I haven't found anything yet. Still looking. I'm starting to think I may
have to abandon on-access.
I found ClamWin. Seems like a nice program but no on-access. It integrates
with outlook (but why will it detect there without on-access?).

I noticed it's a little slow with on-demand scans. When I scan 380 megs of
files, it takes it about 38 seconds when avg scans the same group of files
in only 7 seconds. AVG's da bomb. Too bad I have to leave it.

I got the trial version AVG7 for win2k. It has 29 days left on it now. I
think Grisoft is shooting themselves in the foot with this one. One of the
major pluses of AVG was simplicity. Version 7 is busy as hell and adds a
bunch of candy, most of which just controls functions that were already
taken care of in version 6 with a simpler interface.

I'm pretty tech savvy but I can see how some of my less techie friends can
be confused by all the new windows, controls and gadgetry. The candy is
complete overkill. The detection is still great and it's still blazing fast,
but I doubt Granny can configure that thing without calling out some one to
do it for her. Compared to this, version 6 was almost set and forget.

-Dr.X (Grisoft, you'll be missed.)

PS: I'll keep looking for alternatives for Win2kServ. Let me know if you
find anything.
 
sn0wball said:
"Dr.X" <[email protected]> wrote in message

Actually, I ran into a solution by now. Your Win2kSrv can pretend to
be a Workstation for the installation process. This requires just some
small temporary changes to the registry - which you can find for
yourself or let a small tool named NTSwitch do for you. Looks a bit
weird but worked for me.
Click to expand...

Where did you find this tool? Or what are the registry entries?

Thank you Sn0ball.

-Dr.X
 
Actually, I ran into a solution by now. Your Win2kSrv can pretend to
Where did you find this tool? Or what are the registry entries?

Thank you Sn0ball.

-Dr.X
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Ie found a link to

http://www.winhelpline.info/download/dlm_download.php?id=542

Looks like the company it is from doesnt distribute it any longer.
Perhaps for legal reasons or stuff. But it worked for me. They warn
about using it on XP, tough. I guess it was designed to work the other
way around, that is, installing srever software on non server systems.

I am not so much pleased with the new AVG, too. Scanning takes me MUCH
longer.

Good luck !

sn0wball
 
sn0wball said:
Ie found a link to

http://www.winhelpline.info/download/dlm_download.php?id=542

Looks like the company it is from doesnt distribute it any longer.
Perhaps for legal reasons or stuff. But it worked for me. They warn
about using it on XP, tough. I guess it was designed to work the other
way around, that is, installing srever software on non server systems.

I am not so much pleased with the new AVG, too. Scanning takes me MUCH
longer.

Good luck !

sn0wball
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Got it. thanks Sn0wball. I'll give it a try.

-Dr.X
 
Dr.X said:
Got it. thanks Sn0wball. I'll give it a try.

-Dr.X
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you can also try a dedicated rootkit scanner, AV for server, or HIPS
(host intrusion prevention system). i've seen several of these from
various vendors.

and harden the server itself. that's probably as important as AV. if
it don't get rooted, it don't get rootkitted.

once time in Ring Zero, always in Ring Zero.

michael
 
xmp said:
you can also try a dedicated rootkit scanner, AV for server, or HIPS
(host intrusion prevention system). i've seen several of these from
various vendors.

and harden the server itself. that's probably as important as AV. if
it don't get rooted, it don't get rootkitted.

once time in Ring Zero, always in Ring Zero.

michael
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I'm behind a nice, fat, unix firewall (bsd). I ain't skeered. :-D

-Dr.X
 
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