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Please tell me which is the best antivirus for a company of 100 users atleast. I am looking to put money in the best antivirus available. Please suggest from your experiences.
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It is 'my opinion' that AVG is a good virus detection tool as evidenced by users of this site as it finds virus' on people's PCs.
Personally, I am more interested in preventing viruses from being on the PC in the first place so would suggest an "anti"-virus program versus a virus detection tool.
I presently have two different company PCs on my desktop here at work and both run Norton (SAV). No viruses here.
On my personal PC I run the free version of Avast which I like a lot.
Bryan
P.S. You may get more accurate answers on the http://www.computing.net/security/w... (Security and Virus forum board)
Bryan
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Although it doesn't have the greatest following in the consumer market Computer Associates eTrust does a great job. I use it on a network of 50+ users. Microsoft themselves use this AV.
The developer of our CAD application tested CA AV and report that unlike McAffee and Symantec CA is the only AV that will actually exclude the files, paths, you direct it to exclude from scanning.
Symantec is the defacto standard.
I personally am a HUGE fan of Kaspersky's product.
Good luck,
Po
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Instead of just asking what is the "Best Antivirus" for a company of 100 users, you could have asked what is the "best Antivirus for enterprise deployment" instead. Google has many hits returned under the alternative topic.
http://www.google.com/search?source...
BTW I agree that Symantec has set the de facto standard for enterprise deployment of antivirus software.
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The question being asked numerous times in this forum...just click on the more button at the top of your post and personally I've uninstalled Symantec and Norton from lots of PCs and laptops on an ongoing basis.
Some HELP in posting on Cnet plus free progs and instructions Glad to Help!
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Bryan, if you want to stop viruses getting there in the first
place then you shouldn't even be using AV programs. You
might want to look into how to set permissions in
Windows 2000 or XP Pro, using the user profile manager
effectively and so forth.The more apps and services one adds to a system, the
bigger risk of actually compromising security, and so this
becomes computer insecurity.I can tell you now that any system which has been audited
with a combination of group policy, aggressive
permissions and a lowered user privelage will have far
more effective methods at stopping tampering and viruses
than any virus suite.Norton is not a virus suite, it's a pathetic mess and should
be erased from existance.And before any of you jump on me for recommending
against antivirus systems, I do pen-testing on a regular
basis so I know what I am talking about ;)Why serve in heaven when you can reign in hell?
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Info they don't want you to know about:
"open-source security software"
For unparralleled security and av, simply turn to open-source software that's less likely to have backdoors for anyone.
ClamAV (http://www.clamav.net/) and OpenAntiVirus.org
(http://www.openantivirus.org/) both offer OSSS.Further, unhackable pc security is readily obtainable by installing a good encryption utility like PPG.
Also, always booting off of a CD-ROM and inspecting the hard drive for malicious tampering will provide a highly secure system, and short of operator incompetance, just choosing the right software along with an external router firewall assures the best chances for an always healthy operating system.
Nuff said.
Regards and hap-e-trails, Steve Hopper
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