[Technical] OT - Help Please - Anti-Virus Software recommendations?

[Jim Maunder]

At 11:59 AM 27/07/2006, you wrote:
...
>We have been using VET but they are forcing a change on us that is not
>compatible so we need to look elsewhere.
>Here is the QUESTION posed by my technician:
>
>"Anti virus question to those members of the group that have Novell file
>servers with XP workstations.
>  What antivirus solution do you have in place with server based updates?
>  How efficient is this?
>  Does it affect network performance, if not what speed does network run
>at?
>  Any recomendations for a low grade network?
>  Thanks."


We have Netware 6.5 servers and XP clients. Some years ago we had to 
change from VET also, but stayed with Computer Associates. My boss is 
away so I don't have definitive answers.

The workstations run the eTrust client (v7 at the mo). They are set 
up to fetch the signature update via ftp from our intranet server. 
Overnight a (Windows) box 'on the outside' fetches the updates from 
CA's ftp. Every morning someone (moi at the mo) manually ftps the 
sigs from the 'outside' box to the (linux) intranet box - takes a 
minute all up.

I had some fun (not) setting up the clients so that a 'silent 
install' could be done - nowhere near as easy as VET master 
installation was. It involves editing 2 files - (inoc6.icf and 
inodist.ini) to set preferences, then installing with this:

"...\etrust7\bin\eav_s.win\inosetup /s"

I seem to recall that you can do a manual install, set the 
preferences, then copy these 2 files back to the \eav_s.win folder.

Updating seems to have minimal impact on network - manual download 
takes a few seconds, while the automatic update takes place in the 
background, usually when the user first connects to the network each 
day. Our network is 100mbps with 1gbps backbone - but see above about 
boss being away.

I think the licence costs about $12 a seat/year.

We are happy with eTrust - seems to work well enough.

Hope this helps.

rgds
Jim


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