corporate antivirus

[Draven]

howdo peeps, looking for some more product advice :rolleyes:

our set up
server 1:
dual athlon mp 2400, 1 gb ram, 280gb mirrored storage blah blah
hosts, AD, all user files, isa
server 2
dual xeon 1.7, 512mb ram, 3x17gb scsi drives, backup tape drive
hosts exchange, iis, backup

mostly need an antivirus package that will scan our mail server without killing it, the poor thing has a hard enough time just running the backup, and we cant afford more ram for it at the mo cos its running RD-RAM and i hadnt realised quite how bloody expensive that stuff has become

so, we need to scan incoming and outgoing mail through exchange 2000, scan user files in real time, automatically or easilyy update, and it needs to be a package that actually works not like the placebo that sophos and inoculate provide :rolleyes:

any suggestions?

forgot to say theyre both windows 2000 server domain controllers

[antony]

i use norton corperate av, dont know how it would work with exchange tho, i use mdaemon at work.

[Draven]

i dont *think* it has an exchange plugin from what i have gathered
might do tho
are there any other options?
sophos (what we have to use here atm) doesnt even pick up netsky even if you install the specific netsky ide file!!

[RohanC]

Cant go wrong with symantec anti virus corp edition.

It doesnt do mail server incoming protection (they do a separate package for that) but its top notch for picking up viruses on out clients.

Only probs is the live update is carp... then dont release them often enough. I d/l the manual update everyday & apply that.

Its got remote install on it too, so you can fire it out to all you clients on the domain with ease.

Server side it seams pretty light on resources. Current running on one of our DC's which is an old Compaq Prolient, 650 p3, 512, raid 5.

It does hammer our older machines when it runs the schedualed full scans. We still have some 350 & 400 celly kicking around though so its not surprising!

If you have a decent firewall (i guess your just using ISA as a caching proxy as its running on your DC) i would block certain attachments, such as PIF's etc. Google should bring up a list of comonly used virus extensions, or you could just allow *.doc, *.xls files etc.

[Jonny]

:Plug:

I'd have to recommend Trend Micro Scanmail / ServerProtect.

But then I'm a bit biased..

[antony]

i am sure there are specific mail scanners for exchange, but i dont use it so i dont know. mdaemon has one built in that updates daily, not let a single virus in our our since i installed it.

[mattpayne]

I use Norton corporate at home, but then i dont use exchange.. my mail server (DeskNow) uses the NAV command line interface to scan email and attachments....

[GT]

Originally posted by Draven
i dont *think* it has an exchange plugin from what i have gathered
might do tho
are there any other options?
sophos (what we have to use here atm) doesnt even pick up netsky even if you install the specific netsky ide file!!

In my experience Sophos couldn't catch a cold, absolute cack imho

I've always used Mcafee or Norton, Mcafee E-Policy Orchestrator is nice and manageable.