Re: 2 anti virus on the network

From: sancho (juanb_at_netvision.net.il)
Date: 08/02/04 

Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 17:11:11 +0300

Do u have examples of such a virus ?
( That one vendor cought and the other didnt? I need to present this to my
manager).

thanks !!
"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message
news:72A8C802-F440-4E22-B300-1D5BB9FA23A2@microsoft.com...
> Sancho:
>
> The other two repliers missed the point -- too bad.
>
> What you suggest is an excellent idea and is the most effective way to
protect and Enterprise environment. As others have noted, you can't have
two different AV products installed on the smae platform, howeverm there are
different components to a Enterprise Environment; File Server, Workstation,
Email Server, Border Gateway.
>
> You can improve your level of effectiveness by using different products on
the different components. For example --
> NAV/SAV - Border Gateway
> McAfee - email server
> NOD32 - workstation
> Trend Micro - File Servers
>
> In my office we use NAV on the Exchange Server and we use McAfee
Enterprise v7.1 on the File Servers and Workstations.
>
> I have had an instance where McAfee caught infectors that passed through
the NAV AV software on the Echange server !
>
> Dave
>
> "sancho" wrote:
>
> > HI,
> > I thought to implement two differnet annti virus vendors on the network
> > inorder to reduce the chance that a virus will get in to my network.
> >
> > Does any one knows about an example of a virus or worm or trojan that
one
> > anti virus cought and the other anti virus didnt ?
> >
> > I want to present it to managment so they'll give me budget to implement
> > this thing.
> >
> >
> >
> >

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