Re: anti virus for sbs

In article <ORA3do42IHA.4448@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
MMurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
Anyone know of a company that sells an antivirus products for SBS that will
not try to sell me 5 (or more) licenses at a time. I thought Avast was
selling 1 license at a time, but their advertising is misleading, they want
to sell 5 at a time.

I just need 1 license for the server, the workstations are locked up in a
product already, and we don't have the money to spend on 4 extra licenses
that will just sit around.

Seems like EVERY company wants me to buy more than 1 license. If I needed 6
they want to sell me 10, or if I needed 21 they would try to sell me
25......

When you speak of antivirus for SBS - I think... Server based antivirus
deployment to workstations (and definition updating), and MS Exchange
protection.

It sounds like your wk.stations have anti.v on them (not server based
deployment (or anti.v definition deployment from the server either).

So you just want MS Exchange protection? I wonder if many here would
consider antivirus on the Server to be essential (certainly I think
realtime file scanning is bad on a server). Do you need to scan the
server at all? (You're going 'cheap as possible' right?)

Anyway, Sophos will sell you an individual licence, AFAIK - either or:
Antivirus and MS Exchange (PureMessage).

Only problem with Sophos is they seem to be about the most expensive
around! :( That said, I'll vote for them - great product, updates as
often as you want, fantastic support. PureMessage has a nice Admin
Console and "Dashboard" too.

--
Duncan
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