Re: Anyone using Avast! SBS Suite?
- From: "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" <lanwench@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 14:36:40 -0500
In news:uMmkb72$GHA.3540@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Gary S. Terhune <grystnews@xxxxxxxx> typed:
We've been using Trend Micro NeatSuite for a year now, and it's had
its problems. Some were my own fault, but others were not. After
solving those problems with Support assistance, it proceeded to suck
up 10 GB of disk space storing old pattern files in just a few weeks
-- downloaded ZIPs (12MB) and all the various copies that get
distributed within the server's \Trend Micro\ directory (two or three
copies of LPT$VPN files per update at 25MB each.) Took a full day to
get an initial response from Support, then three days for the guy to
come up with a solution that I can only hope will stop pattern file
updates from being stored indefinitely. Beyond that, it turns outr
that tehre was a patch for v. 3, SP1 that I only found out about from
Support. It was not automatically updated nor did we receive any
notification that it was available. Also, TM is not exactly an
economical solution.
I've been looking at Awil's Avast! SBS Suite, described here.
http://avast.com/eng/sbs_suite.html
Anyone have any experience with this Suite? It's a small SBS network
with two, soon to be three or four, clients. Unfortunately, one of
the clients also gets used as a personal mahine by the owner (and
sometimes employees, on the sly) so I need to cover all the bases and
not depend on user education or admin restrictions to keep the
network safe.
I've never used it, but I thought their standalone desktop client wasn't so
nice, so I stopped using it. I'd been told it was better than sliced bread
by several people, but I found it to be a bit of a memory hog. Your mileage
may vary.
Instead, tho, I'd seriously look at Trend's CSM for SMB - I use it at pretty
much all my client sites. I don't know what version you were using, but I
haven't seen it store that many old pattern files - did they say this was
normal?
And I don't email Trend when I need support; I call them. They're really
nice. CSM is not expensive for what you get. NeatSuite is probably overkill
for you, though. You can renew & downgrade, you know.....uninstall
ServerProtect, and the other components, and then install CSM from scratch.
You run Officescan as a file-level AV client on the server as well as on all
workstations.
.
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