[Ham-Computers] Firewall & AntiVirus Packages

[WF2U]

Robert,

I had a similar issue at one of my clients, a small office with a Win2003SB
server and 10 workstations, with  a single-point
administration/distribution. Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition with the
necessary number of licenses would have been really expensive, so after some
investigation I decided for using Grisoft AVG Network edition as it had
really nice features - besides the later editions of NAV are not as stable
as the older versions used to be, and many installations fail and its a pain
in the neck to clean up after a failed installation...).
The cost of AVG was almost half of that of NAV, the license is for 2 years,
subscription renewal is 50% of the initial cost (2 years also). It has a
remote installation/update feature, you push the installation to all the
workstations on the network from one central location. The package also has
a firewall option.
I'm happy with it...

73, Meir WF2U


Meir Ben-Dror CNE, MCSE, MCSA
MBD Consulting - Computer and Network Services
453 Dill Road,
Landrum, SC 29356
864-895-4025
Mobile: 864-313-6788
mbdconsulting at starband.net



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> Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 5:02 PM
> To: Ham-Computers at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Ham-Computers] Firewall & AntiVirus Packages
>
>
> Group,
>
> We currently use Norton Internet Security on the three machines
> on our LAN.
> But all three copies are soon to have to be renewed ($$).  And
> two of them are
> 2003, which is no longer supported on their Help system, so it's
> do without
> if needed or more ($$$).  Our cable internet provider
> (RoadRunner) offers a
> package that I guess you could say we've already paid for or are
> paying for so it
> doesn't necessarily fall under the "you usually get what you paid
> for" clause
> of Murphey's Law.
>
> The package is eTrust EZArmor by Computer Associates, which is also
> commercially available.  Does anyone have any actual experience
> with it (RoadRunner or
> otherwise), especially as compared to Norton?
>
> I'll add that I have installed the package once.  My
> Father-In-Law recently
> got RoadRunner.  He had no firewall at all, and his copy of NAV
> was so old it
> dated to before they started using the year as the version
> number.  So on the
> basis of anything is better than nothing, I installed EZArmor on
> his machine.
> But I didn't get much time to play with it as they live in San
> Antonio and we
> came home the next day.
>
> Robert Downs - Houston
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