Re: Inexpensive Antivirus - or do I need it at all?
From: Ezra Herman (ezj_at_babelconsulting.com)
Date: 05/11/05
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Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 14:06:37 -0400
Selden-
AVG Professional (www.grisoft.com) seems to protect servers fine. It's
only $33 or so.
FWIW, there is no reason that many AV programs should not work on
servers. However, most vendors check to see if their client software
is being installed on server software and refuse to continue, mostly
to get you to buy more expensive software.
Having said that, however, server AV software is often optimized to
use resources more benignly than client AV software. However, in your
situation this shouldn't be a consideration.
I use AVG Pro on my Windows 2003 development server and it is doing
fine.
For a list of known working AV programs and firewalls for Win2003, see
http://www.msfn.org/win2k3/misc.htm
HTH,
Ezra
On Thu, 5 May 2005 18:02:49 -0700, "Selden McCabe" <seldenm@msn.com>
wrote:
>I am an independent software developer. Mostly I work on XP Pro, but I do
>have an old machine in my office with Windows advanced server 2003, mostly
>for test and running odd programs. (Since I am also an MSDN subscriber, I
>have access to all the flavors of Windows.)
>
>I keep Mcafee or Norton antivirus up to date on all my computers. But the
>only anti-virus packages I can find for Windows Server are hundreds of
>dollars.
>
>Is there an inexpensive antivirus package for windows 2003 advanced server?
>Do I even need an antivirus package on this box?
>
>Any advice would be helpful!
>
>Thanks,
> ---Selden
>
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