Virus protection

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Hi all,

I'm wondering about virus protection for a win2003 server. I'm new to dedicated servers and wonder what I should do--I have Ensim on the server. I do not have any sort of protection or detection on it now--should I? What do I do when someone uploads a file to the server on their site? Anyone have the ins and outs on this subject--for a newbie?

[DXD]

I would recommend using Norton Antivirus the server version which costs money OR you can use what I and alot of people use ClamWin A Free Antivirus For Windows www.clamwin.com

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Thanks. I would like to get a comparison, but the symantec site is really slow and returns errors--not exactly the sort of thing the builds confidence. Plus, they make it as difficult as possible to actually find what you are looking for (never found a server version) and calling them produced a dial tone after about 5 mins of wait. Any other options out there?

It looks like the opensource option is just run to check for viruses manually--is that all we need to do? I'm so new I don't even know what it is that I would want it to do if I had it--but I do know I need something.


Thanks.

[DXD]

Norton is the best product in my opinion out there. Surprised you had so much trouble getting to the site I had no trouble at all.

http://www.symantecstore.com/dr/sat2/ec_MAIN.Entry17c?CID=0&PN=5&SP=10007&SID=27674&PID=638349&DSP=&CUR=840&PGRP=0&CACHE_ID=0

The only downside is that they don't sell SINGLE server versions you have to buy them in 5 packs. So if you have say your server and a couple of home pc's it's worth it otherwise hopefully you will have 5 servers soon cause it costs $251.00

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The site is quick now--thanks. It was dead slow earlier.

[KyleMulligan]

I use F-Prot to filter incoming/outgoing email. It works pretty well. It's also very reasonably priced at $50/year for a license.

[ghosilyk]

I also use F-Prot and am very satisfied with it's performance and price. If you use mailenable, it's the best solution for your server in my opinion.

[Tim]

I use both Clamwin and Norton. Clamwin has caught everything so far. Norton hasn't even had to do anything yet. (and Clamwin is free)

[GaryK]

IIRC, isn't real-time virus scanning something you can only do with the professional version of Mail Enable?

In terms of protecting my server I have AVG anti-virus scheduled to do a complete scan once a day.

[cmurphy54]

ClamWin is a very good product for scanning incoming/outgoing emails, etc., and even doing nightly/weekly/monthly scans of your server, but be aware that it does not perform on-access real-time scanning like Symantec.

It also can't clean viruses.

But, for a free product it's great and I use it on my mail server.

If performance is of primary concern, I have heard that ClamAV (the unix program ClamWin is based off of) when compiled for Windows performs faster than ClamWin.

[SylvrFalkon]

At my work we use Symantec on every machine, and on the server also. The odd time, a virus does get through before the updates can happen. Usually it is pretty good with getting the latest updates though.

I installed Clam on my red hat linux server box. Not sure if it ever intitialized properly, but still, I installed it, and process seems to be running. Seems to be a nice command-line ran customizable scanner.

James
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