[nycbug-talk] windows anti-virus suggestions

[Kevin Reiter]

Jonathan wrote:
> On windows machines I've really liked using Sophos - they're  
> proactive, up-to the minute, and catch things the bulk of other virus  
> scanners miss (ie symantec).
> 
> They make you pay for it though -- from what I remember, its not  
> cheap.  But if you get  the small business license you can run their  
> linux/bsd daemon on your server for email etc.

As a current Sophos VAR partner, I wound up looking elsewhere for a 
solution and found Avast! to be a good replacement, as far as the Win32 
side of the house.  I did some checking, and a 3-year subscription costs 
just less than a 1-year from Symantec.  They also have a server-based 
deployment thingy, which I just got done installing - works pretty good.

Sophos has been going through a lot of internal changes as far as 
Partners are concerned, but they're still one of 2 that I know of that 
puts out a solution for *BSD.


http://www.avast.com