[Technical] Antivirus and anti-malware protection

[Jordie Ford]

Don't you have a firewall at your school?
Also it is very easy to stop LimeWire on macs. But that's another matter (if
you want to know please ask me).


On 20/11/08 10:01 PM, "Greg Neil (Mr)" <greg at stmargarets.vic.edu.au> wrote:

> We are migrating from eTrust to Sophos. So far, so good. Remote deployment can
> be a bit hit and miss, but otherwise the central management is good. Support
> is responsive, which is also a bonus. We have also put the Mac version on a
> few laptops that have Limewire running on them (despite our recommendation to
> the contrary) and it has found a lot of infected files there. It will probably
> take us 12 months to completely migrate, simply from a licensing point of
> view.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tech-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Jordie Ford
> Sent: Thu 11/20/2008 6:59 PM
> To: Technical Discussion in Schools Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Technical] Antivirus and anti-malware protection
>  
> Probably symantec. I think all deecd schools and offices use it. I would
> highly recommend sophos (trialing it at home for replacing etrust next
> year). Definitely don¹t do eTrust.
> 
> Just my two cents
> 
> On 20/11/08 8:54 AM, "Alan Oh" <OH.A at wcc.vic.edu.au> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all. 
>>  
>> Our Symantec Endpoint Protection licence is expiring and I am considering
>> another package, possibly Sophos. Does anyone out there use it and are there
>> any teething issues or existing issues?
>>  
>> Apart from Sophos, what is being used by most other schools ?
>>  
>> Regards
>> Alan
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