Comments on: Antivirus for your small software business

By: Dennis Gurock

Dennis Gurock — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 18:20:19 +0000

We bought it from a german reseller for around EUR 150 + VAT, but the quoted $147 number is from Trend Micro’s online shop at:

https://onlinekey.ltg.info/shop/productdetail.aspx

It’s with one year of maintenance. Your EUR 197 price is with 2 years maintenance maybe?

By: masterkey

masterkey — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 18:08:58 +0000

We did you get it for $147? The best price I found was â‚¬197

By: Dennis Gurock

Dennis Gurock — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 19:45:04 +0000

Thanks for all the comments!

William: If we had live protection enabled, the file would probably end up in the quarantine on the server. But that’s not the reason we have it installed on the server. The server is used for some internal services and since worms could – theoretically – propagate over the network if another machine is infected, it’s better to scan the server, too.

Michel: It was the Symantec Corporate Edition which we used, but I wasn’t very happy with it.

Oliver: That’s really interesting, especially because we are currently looking to replace our old router with an appliance. I guess Trend Micro is used for a built-in HTTP proxy to check downloaded files for viruses?

The Nod32 admin interface looks good and they count servers as normal licenses like Trend Micro does. But we are happy with Trend Micro for now, so we will use that.

By: Stephane Wierzbicki

Stephane Wierzbicki — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:44:27 +0000

I will say that Nod32 is certainly the best solution available :

- simple to install (this not a big fat software with tons of useless features)
- simple to manage / update ….
- administration is really easy
- it is really fast
- it doesn’t eat all your CPU power / memory when ruuning
- check pop / http traffic
- good prize

Just have a look at this product…

By: Oliver Townshend

Oliver Townshend — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 10:07:09 +0000

I bought the Netgear DG834G today, which is an ADSL Wireless Modem Router with Trend Micro built in. Could be interesting…

By: Nuno

Nuno — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 09:38:52 +0000

Try nod32. Prices are similar and is an excelent product.

By: Michel

Michel — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 07:54:36 +0000

I have bad experience with all of Symantec’s home-user oriented stuff, but Antivirus Corporate Edition is quite good. McAfee’s home user stuff is also crap recent years. Extremely bloated, slow, terrible user-interface etc.

By: Jason Chapman

Jason Chapman — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 07:25:24 +0000

There was an interesting thread in Radmin’s forum about Symantecs corporate edition. I replied as I have a client who I recommended buying a 3 year license. For such an organisation to ship such a product where options don’t do what they say they do, installer broken etc. I can sumarise that I think AV software should be a bullet proof utility, not something I have had to install and re-install and talk to support for hours. I have spent a couple of days on it over the last 2 years. I won’t be recommending it to anyone.

Trend Micro – I’ll give it a go.

JAC

By: William

William — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 01:15:07 +0000

Just wonder… why anti-virus for the file server? What would happen if an virus is found while user is copying that inflected file to the server?

By: Charles Hodgkins

Charles Hodgkins — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 00:17:32 +0000

We have been using Trend Micro’s AV Enterprise software for about 5 years now on all our systems and it just works. In addition, I switched to their end-user product after I installed a version of Symantec that crashed my computer. I have been very satisfied.