Antivirus Vendors

Tesdall <dtesdall DeleteThis @ci.winchester.va.us> wrote in
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> On Oct 7, 2:06 am, Erik Vastmasd <erik.va... DeleteThis @sd.invalid> wrote:
>> On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 07:48:20 -0700 (PDT),when reading
>> "alt.comp.anti-virus", I'm certain I caught a glimpse of "Tesdall
>> <dtesd... DeleteThis @ci.winchester.va.us>" saying:
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>> >On Oct 6, 10:43 am, "tom" <n... DeleteThis @none.net> wrote:
>> >> "Tesdall" <dtesd... DeleteThis @ci.winchester.va.us> wrote in message
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>> >>news:9fb4cbf6-4586-4ee2-b475-e13221dc6353@m3g2000hsc.googlegroups.co
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> .>Ithink we are down to three vendors for our antiviru software.
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>> >> > The only thing we want to do is scan local machines and exchange
>> >> > mailboxes. nothing more, no firewalls...just antivirus and
>> >> > exchange mailbox scanning.
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>> >> > We already own and use Trendmicro officescan. so we can just
>> >> > renew i
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>> >> > We are looking into Sophos for exchange and computer systems and
>> >> > kaspersky.
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>> >> > Can someone tell me which one is the best to go with and why?
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>> >> Take a look at:  http://www.eset.com/
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>> >I have read a lot of reviews already including that website. I
>> >believe that product is called NOD32. I'm asking now for person
>> >experience. e. g. Tech support was awful, we couldn't get the
>> >product to work. It was slow and sluggish, etc...
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>> I've used NOD32 for a number of years and I'm licensed until year
>> 2010 on two computers. NOD32 updates automatically whenever an update
>> is available. I've never needed tech support so can't advise there.
>> They have my email address and I never receive annoying emails from
>> them. I will be buying a new computer shortly which will have NOD32
>> installed immediately.
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>> I will uninstall NOD32 from my oldest computer to save paying an
>> additional licence fee and I intend installing AVG free on the older
>> computer. AVG gets excellent reports so I will be eager to try it for
>> myself.
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> I use AVG free at home as well, and have for approx 4 or so years. I
> have never had an infection in that time frame. I have had it detect
> viruses in emails people sent me or in files i have downloaded that i
> knew i shouldn't have downloaded in the first place. I have also setup
> AVG for a small business and it was horrible to set up. I hated it :
> ( . Anyways thanks for the information.
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Did you use the free version for the small business?


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