Re: Centrally managed antivirus

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Vern and everyone else for your suggestions.

This gives me a lot to look at over the next several months.


On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:32 AM, Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Jeff
>
> <verndor response>
> We are partners with Sophos, and there are centralized solutions we can
> provide. I don't know the costs or the policies for this kind of thing.
> You could look at our site and see if there is information enough to
> whet your appetite, and maybe go to www.sophos.com, I think. One nice
> thing, all our people get to install a stand-alone version at home. They
> don't sell a consumer version at all.
> </verndor response>
>
> Vern
>
> On 8/9/2010 10:23 AM, Jeff Crosby wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > We're a small company (@20 PCs and servers) and are currently using
> Symantec
> > Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition for our AV protection.  It is
> > protecting us well and saves me a lot of admin time, but I'm looking for
> > something different.
> >
> > The reason is Symantec is a PITA to deal with.  1) You have to buy at
> least
> > 5 licenses at a time when we'd like to buy 1 at a time, and 2) When you
> do
> > buy new licenses, you can't prorate them such that all licenses are
> renewed
> > at the same time.
> >
> > What are the rest of you using for this?  I'm sure there have to be
> others
> > with central admin.
> >
> > Thanks.
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