[nycbug-talk] windows anti-virus suggestions

[Brad Schonhorst]

On 1/24/06, Isaac Levy <ike at lesmuug.org> wrote:
>
> Hey All,
>
> On Jan 24, 2006, at 1:35 PM, 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 an aside, Sophos seems to own ActiveState, who I know to be huge
> financial supporters in the Python community...  Brownie points, for
> sure :)



If you go with Sophos and are planning to do any type of enterprise
management, plan on running it from a windows server.   They can support mac
clients but we ran into issues trying to host the CID on a os x server.
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