I need someone in the know to reccomend an antivirus solution for my business. We currently have about 20 XP pc's networked on Windows 2000 sevrer (soon to be 2003)

We're currently using Symantec Enterprise Edition, but I'm fucked off with how difficult it is to administer it from the server. Everytime you try to roll out a client install it gives you another apparently random error message. Besides that it is the mother of all bloatware slowing pc's to a virtual standstill. It costs us about £350 a year for a 20 user licence so anything in that sort of range will be fine.

What I'm looking for is the opposite of Symantec. Something easy to install and administer from a central location, and something that doesn't take up too many system resources while providing real time protection.

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We use the CA eTrust stuff on our estate and that copes very well with multiple distribution servers, 120,000+ PC's and a few thousand servers. What's better though, my office PC really is a cuntdump but at least my AV software isn't bringing it to it's knees

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Thanks softy, (nice post deletion btw). I had a look at CA's stuff but the only small business solution I saw that was distributable over the network was about £1600 per year for 25 users which is more than I was looking to pay.

I have also had a look at the NOD32 stuff and they seem to have a centrally administered product (ESET NOD32 Antivirus (Business Edition)) for about £650 for 20 licences for 3 years. Anyone got any experience with this product?

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Post deletion? I can't remember deleting anything... But I forget shit all the time

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We too deploy the CA shit here on networks. Deploys very nice, and just does its fucking job with little hassle and overhead. The cost you are talking seems high to me, we just deployed here to 40 machines, plus server for under 3K USD for a year.

Sophos makes a network enterprise deployable release, and while I haven't used them in a few years, their product used to be so fucking tasty it was damn near better than pussy.

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