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Central Anti-Virus For Small Business?

rduke15 writes "I'm trying to find a centrally managed anti-virus solution for a small business network, which has around 20 Windows XP machines with a Linux server. It is too big to manage each client manually. However, there is no no full-time IT person on site, and no Windows Active Directory server — just Linux with Samba. And the current solution with Symantec Endpoint Protection seems too expensive, and too complex for such a simple need. On the Linux server side, email is handled by amavisd and ClamAV. But the WinXP clients still need a real-time anti-virus for the USB disks they may bring to work, or stuff they download from their personal webmail or other sites. I'm wondering what others may be using in similar situations, and how satisfied they are with it."

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  1. We use Nod32 by Mark19960 · · Score: 5, Informative

    It works well, you just need a windows server/workstation to push it to clients and for clients to get updates from.
    It's also not very resource hungry.

    I think 30 seats was around $1000

  2. Kaspersky - Support for Windows & Linux by Swampcritter · · Score: 5, Informative

    Kaspersky Enterprise Space Security is comprised of components for the protection of Linux and Windows workstations, file servers and mail systems.

    Samba File Servers are also fully supported!

    More Information -- http://usa.kaspersky.com/products_services/business/open_space_enterprise.php