Re: anti virus for sbs
- From: "Gregg Hill" <greggmhill at please do not spam me at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 09:35:38 -0700
You may want to re-think your position, depending upon WHAT you have for the
current workstation antivirus.
Whose product is it?
How old is the product? If it is Norton Antivirus, you'd better have the
absolute latest build or you may not be protected how you think you are. I
picked up several clients, one with Norton Internet Security 2005 and the
other with 2006, and a third with Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition 8,
and all of them had virus infections, in spite of the scans saying they were
clean. Yes, the virus **definitions** were current, but the **build** was
old and the virus infections got past all three of them. They were all home
users, and I installed Trend Micro Internet Security (2006 or 2007 at the
time) and it found all the virus infections on all three. That is when I
stopped using Symantec's product.
So you have a one-year contract for a workstation-based antivirus. OK. Now
take a look at Trend Micro Worry Free Business Security Advanced product. It
is server-based and pushes out to the workstations (if you want to do so),
it protects Exchange from viruses and spam, it has a POP3 virus and spam
scanner with an Outlook antispam toolbar for POP accounts, it comes with web
browsing protection, and a 5-user license **retails** for $396.95 for a
TWO-year 5-user license (one year is $310.10 retail). That's less than $200
per year ($16.54 per month) to protect the server and four workstations.
You think you don't have $200 per year to spend? Tell me that you (or the
business owner) never goes out to dinner, never buys alcoholic beverages,
never smokes, never goes to Starbucks, never goes to the movies, etc, and I
**might** believe you. I firmly believe that ANYONE in business can trim
$16.54 a month from their personal budget to afford good antivirus software.
Still too costly? If you have a reseller permit for your state, you should
have an account with Ingram or another big distributor. If you are not a
reseller, find someone who is (probably most of us), and order it through
them. We (and maybe even end users) can get competitive upgrade pricing,
which usually makes it cheaper to install the whole banana than it is to
renew your current workstation licenses.
If you buy through a large distributor, you can buy Trend in the first
five-pack, then you can buy two-pack add-ons quite inexpensively, or if you
need only six, you buy only six. I believe as long as you buy the minimum
five, then after that, you can pick how many you need.
A nice thing about server-based products is that they are easy to monitor,
easy to update all systems, and usually easy to install company wide.
Install it on the server, push it to the workstations, configure it, and sit
back and relax. As long as your license is current, you can install newer
versions. I just upgraded from Trend CSMS for SMB 3.6 to the Worry Free
Business Security Advanced 5.0 product. All you do is upgrade the server,
and it takes care of upgrading the workstations for you.
Those four extra licenses don't have to "just sit around." They should be
installed on four workstations and provide better(?) protection than your
current solution.
Gregg Hill
"M. Murphy" <MMurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:erggcA52IHA.2524@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks for the reply, I will check them out.
I just want the server protected, we have antivirus on the workstations,
and are locked into a contract for another year.
I would love to have a proper antivirus on the server, to protect the
server and exchange, but most companies seem to force you to buy more
licenses than are really needed. We are a small company and $600+ for a
product that comes with licenses that we won't use is rather expensive. I
know the cost of a virus outbreak can also be expensive, but I just need
ONE license to be secure!!!
"Duncan McC" <hard@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:MPG.22d51234feef1ad989996@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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
.
- Follow-Ups:
- Re: anti virus for sbs
- From: M. Murphy
- Re: anti virus for sbs
- References:
- anti virus for sbs
- From: M. Murphy
- Re: anti virus for sbs
- From: Duncan McC
- Re: anti virus for sbs
- From: M. Murphy
- anti virus for sbs
- Prev by Date: Re: email account
- Next by Date: Blocking Windows Live Messenger in ISA 2004
- Previous by thread: Re: anti virus for sbs
- Next by thread: Re: anti virus for sbs
- Index(es):
Relevant Pages
|
