Re: Is complete home security possible?

From: Arthur Hagen (art_at_broomstick.com)
Date: 02/06/05 

Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 00:42:49 -0500

Joe <noone@no.com> wrote:
>
> So other then that there's no really difference in features? Bummer.

Yes, the Corporate Edition also doesn't install more than a dozen different
services, registry Run section triggers and scheduled tasks, like the
consumer version does. One or two services is all.

You can also check the version of the corporate edition from the outside,
which is quite useful for firewalls that support this -- if a client doesn't
have the latest virus definitions installed, you can block it from accessing
the outside.
But how (I hear you cry) can you download the latest virus definitions if
your firewall blocks you? Simple -- with the corporate edition, you
normally don't download the updates directly from Symantec to the client,
but from a local liveupdate server on the only computer that needs to fetch
them from the outside. Less bandwidth wasted, and greater security --
clients can still get the latest downloaded update from the local server
even if the internet connection is down, and there's an audit trail of which
computers have updated and which haven't.

Regards, 

-- 
*Art

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