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| Thread ID: 117180 | 2011-04-06 04:17:00 | Free Anivirus for school proxy situation. | Newteach (4990) | Press F1 |
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| 1192392 | 2011-04-06 04:17:00 | Being a state run school the govt has given us a Symantec Antivirus solution which runs only on computers with at least 1gig of ram. (Come on guys, in our poor school we have many pc's with only 512mb Ram which we still use for the day to day slog). The Symantec, (Special education version for NZ schools), is the biggest ram sucking useless piece of crap I have ever seen. It couldn't spot a virus in a school sick bay let alone on our computers. Personally I've had good results from MS Security Essentials but have trouble updating it through our proxy server. My Question is what is people's advice on a free AV product which will update through a Proxy server? | Newteach (4990) | ||
| 1192393 | 2011-04-06 04:28:00 | Almost all will, but most free versions are for home-use only... | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1192394 | 2011-04-06 08:32:00 | The Symantec, (Special education version for NZ schools), is the biggest ram sucking useless piece of crap I have ever seen. It couldn't spot a virus in a school sick bay let alone on our computers :lol::lol::lol: That made my day :thumbs: |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1192395 | 2011-04-06 08:39:00 | The Symantec, (Special education version for NZ schools), is the biggest ram sucking useless piece of crap I have ever seen. It couldn't spot a virus in a school sick bay let alone on our computers sounds like Symantec is doing better than it usually does. How did you get it to work so well? As for MSE what is/isn't working in regards to the proxy server? |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1192396 | 2011-04-06 08:52:00 | Have had the some problem running it through our proxys. You can download the offline update from the links here: www.intowindows.com To deploy it you can make a VBS script that runs on the server weekly that will check for an update. If the update returns "true" you can deploy it to the computers. That or download manually weekly and deploy to PC's. I might try to find a way to tunnel it through Schoolzone (assuming you are running school zone too) the problem is 50+ odd computers all downloading AV definitions is a pretty solid load on the network. A server distribution method is probably best where the server downloads the update and applies to networked PC's. The reason it doesn't work with Proxy's it because it was designed for home use and generally home users don't tunnel their connection through a proxy. Therefore proxying was not included in the MSSE code |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1192397 | 2011-04-06 09:07:00 | We run SEP at work, our PC's are P4 3GHz with 512mb ram. It seems to work fine, it also it awesome for locking down usb ports etc. If you think thats bad the schools used to get etrust..now thats a crap product. But as above has said, nothing else is free and a business/edu enviroment, and good luck with centralised management. |
Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1192398 | 2011-04-06 09:10:00 | ... | Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1192399 | 2011-04-06 10:11:00 | I have SEP installed at several sites (both schools and businesses) and find it better than Etrust. Free software doesn't have any centralised management. MS Essentials updates can be deployed via WSUS but no management options. Also running on 512Mb with OK - no worse than any AVG or Avast etc. SEP is not the best detection software and I recommend Nod32 every day but nothing is 100% |
berryb (99) | ||
| 1192400 | 2011-04-06 10:38:00 | I've never installed MSE on a domain and I see Chill has posted that it will not install on a domain PC. But yet MS have it available for download via WSUS so I assumed it would install. I might try and install MSE on a domain when time allows one day. | berryb (99) | ||
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