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Re: Av vendors
From: "Chris Barber" <cmbarber () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:05:12 -0700
Juan, I have heard of some services that use a particular vendor's signature database but never two vendors that use the same signature database. As for a list of vendors I would suggest you look at the big vendors first McAfee, Symantec, TrendMicro, Grisoft, & Panda just to name a few. Using more than one AV software is an excelent idea, your environment may help you make a choice of what software to use where. For instance: If your shop is all Microsoft you may want to use Trend Micro on your Exchange servers, then use Symantec on Workstations and McAfee servers. In my experiance I have had the best perfomance with Trend Micro on Exchange servers. Server and Desktop protection can be the same vendor but if you can get Management buy-in I would split them. Here is where a bit of personal preferance and experiance comes in. If you are the only IT person you get all the say on what goes where, however, if you are only one team member, the team has to put all the past experiances together and make an informed choice as to what they will put on the workstations. Workstations are the biggest issue in my book because they effect the end user. What ever choice you make they have to live with. So take all the advice you can get from anywhere possible, lay it all out and make the best choice you can. Hope this helps, Chris. On 12/31/06, Juan B <juanbabi () yahoo com> wrote:
Hi, For my network I want to install two diffrant AV software with diffrant signiture files. I know that some vendors use the same singniture file. which of the vendors has diffrant singniture file? another question, which of the vendores has the shortest time of developing a signiture after a virus outbreak? Thanks very much !! Juan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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