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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."
McAfee offer a nice solution - yourasp, which is quite good. Offers a really nice web interface for central reporting and policy configuration etc. At first I thought it would be total crap but now recommend it to our clients, some 6 - 30 PCs. Not sure about the licensing though. But just use what you know, no point spending 20hours trying to figure out some xyz app when you could be doing better things (read beer).