Virus protection

From: halve (halve27_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: 30 Aug 2004 13:19:20 -0700

I manage about 500 xp machines, which are running Symantec enterprise
that points to a windows 2003 box running the enterprise service. I
have the server checking for virus updates every hour and pushing them
out to the clients when they are available. The problem I am noticing
is that when viruses are released onto the net it takes Symantec some
time to develop a definition to protect the machines. In my eyes that
means there is a point where my network is vunrable to mail born
viruses and what not. Is there any other type of virus protection,
maybe somthing that fingerprints packets at the switch level? What do
other large companies do to protect there network? Other than go to a
different operating system.

Thank you

Halve

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