Re: Sonicwall Virus protection

From: John (john_at_home.com)
Date: 05/06/05 

Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 12:16:47 -0400

Thanks for the info. That's exactly what I was looking for.

John

"wowcow" <nomail@nomail.com> wrote in message
news:mKIee.4828$7F4.2363@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> > You are right. I am talking about the desktop/firewall approach. It
> > would
> > seem to enforce the compliance or updating of dats, but pound for pound,
> > dollar for dollar, is it better than Mcafee alone? I think I read that
> > only
> > internet capable machines could run it, is that right?
> >
> > Is anyone using it today?
>
> I have it all (from SonicWall). I use the Firewall based scanner, the
> Intrusion Prevention, Content Filter and yes, the client based virus
scanner
> (Overkill maybe, but I'm a one man IT show and I can't afford to go around
> cleaning machines).
>
> "Pound for pound", the client AV through the firewall is cheaper. As
of
> a couple months ago, you can now even automate the scanning of machines at
> the client. It used to be the AV software on the client only watched for
> incoming viri and if you wanted to scan the disk, you had to initiate that
> from the client. Now I do that via the firewall admin panels.
>
> You are correct though about the internet. If a machine does not try
to
> BROWSE the internet, it will never have the AV installed. In-other-words,
> if you only setup eMail (no browsing of web pages) the Firewall won't
force
> the AV software. An easy fix for that is as an administrator, when you
> setup a machine on your LAN, start the browser which will force the AV
> software to install on the client. Once you have it installed, even if
you
> never browse the internet again, it will still download updates. HOWEVER,
> if a machine is never connected to the ineternet, then NO, you cannot have
> the AV running on it.
>
> On the other hand, if all your internet capable machines are getting
the
> AV updates, there should be no viri floating around for the unprotected
> machine, unless they're exposed to floppy or USB drives?
>
> -Wayne
>
>

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