Re: Managed Anti-virus on desktops

From: Marlon Brown (marlon_brownj@hotmail.com)
Date: 10/31/02 

From: "Marlon Brown" <marlon_brownj@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 17:52:00 -0800

Thanks.
Hey, regarding the firewall, would you recommend Norton firewall solution as
well ?
I have about 600 laptops that would need firewall.

"Karl Levinson [x y] mvp" <levinson_k@excite.com> wrote in message
news:uLdAKpDgCHA.2272@tkmsftngp10...
> I agree. Norton is also a lot cheaper. With Mcafee, you just rent the
> software yearly, instead of owning it outright. If you get NAV Corporate
> edition for all your workstations, you get NAV server which can push out
> installs of the NAV client remotely [the user may be asked to reboot in
some
> cases] and pushes out updates to everyone as many times an hour as you
wish.
>
> You also get for free NAV Internet Email Gateway, NAV for Exchange server
[I
> prefer the email gateway instead] and NAV for Firewalls [just scans for
> viruses in HTTP and FTP, no big deal to me, does not work with all
> firewalls].
>
> Since McAfee is making you pay for upgrades, you probably would be saving
> money by switching to Norton. Norton will probably run you $25 to $50 per
> workstation, but consider getting the Gold support / upgrade insurance
[last
> time I checked, one is included free with the price of the other].
>
> Instead of calling Norton for prices and purchasing information, they'll
> want you to call any corporate software reseller.
>
>
> "S. Pidgorny [MVP]" <slavickp@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:O9UcmqAgCHA.2532@tkmsftngp09...
> > Second that: NAV updates engines as well as signatures using LiveUpdate.
> > Being high-prfile competitors, Mcaffee should have such facility?
> >
> > --
> > Svyatoslav Pidgorny, MS MVP, MCSE
> > -= F1 is the key =-
> >
> > "NeoSadist" <neos@dist> wrote in message
> > news:urv9jcgkn7ila2@corp.supernews.com...
> > >
> > >
> > > Get Norton's then.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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