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Central Anti-Virus For Small Business?

Posted by kdawson on from the keeping-them-safe-despite-everything dept.

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. the problem is the OS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't mean this to be smug or smartass

    but we migrated the office to Mac OS X. It took about 4 months to get everyone happy with the switch.

    Now we're very happy with the solution.

    1. Re:the problem is the OS by ThePengwin · · Score: 0, Troll

      Thats like saying a house needs to be demolished because theyd like a new door

      And i dare say it will raise enormus compatibility problems and costs would be astronomical compared to solving the small problem at hand.

  2. Re:NOD32 Antivirus and NOS32 Remote Administrator by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Anti-virus doesn't work from what I've experience. You could run 15 different anti-virus type apps against a removed hard drive and still not find all the crap on them. Suggesting: don"t use MS Windows.

  3. Re:One proposal by thegoldenear · · Score: 0, Troll

    If you disable USB ports, how do you attach a keyboard and mouse!?