Virus vaccination: 4 applications tested

Specifications

Product eTrust Antivirus V7 McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 7.0 & ePolicy Orchestrator Nod32 Antivirus System
Company Computer Associates Network Associates NOD32 Australia
Phone 1800 224 636 1800 644 646 07 3204 5000
Web site www.ca.com www.networkassociates.com www.nod32.com.au
RRP inc GST US$65 (approx A$99); US$35 per user (approx AU$53) for 1-99 users $56.13 per node (101-250 node price) Single PC = $75 (1 Year)/ $120 (2 Years). Site licenses on a sliding scale reducing to $13.50 for 2000 or more clients.
Warranty & support 24x7 phone, e-mail, and Web support. One year's updates and business hours telephone; e-mail and Web support. Phone support for licensed users, 9am-5pm EST Monday-Friday, is included at no cost.
On demand/On access scanning? Yes/Yes Yes/Yes Yes/Yes
Antivirus actions Report, delete, rename, quarantine, cure Clean, delete, quarantine, deny access â€"
Automatic virus data files and engine updates? Yes, updated daily. More frequent as needed Can be set to run daily, weekly, monthly; at system startup, logon, or idle Automaticâ€"checks for update every 1 hour by default
Method of centralised deployment Push and Pull Pullâ€"can be initiated on demand Push
Supported environments Windows, Linux, Sun, Solaris, Novell Netware, Apple Macintosh, PalmOS, HP-UX (beta), Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes Domino, Microsoft ISA Server, Check Point FW-1, NG Apache Proxy NT, 2000, XP (note: VirusScan 4.5.1 is included on CD and supports Win 95/98/Me), Windows Server 2003, MS Cluster Server, Citrix MetaFrame 1.8 & XP support Windows95/98/Me/NT/2000/2003/XP, DOS, Linux, BSD, Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes/Domino, Novell Netware

Product Sophos Anti Virus & Enterprise Manager OfficeScan, ServerProtect & Trend Micro Control Manager
Company Sophos Australia Trend Micro Australia
Phone 02 9409 9100 1800 642 421
Web site www.sophos.com.au www.trendmicro.com.au
RRP inc GST $84/PC (25 users) $61.80 per user for 51-100 users (ex GST)
Warranty & support Phone, fax, e-mail, web. RRP inclusive of 24/7 support. 30-day warranty. The first year of standard support is included.
On demand/On access scanning? Yes/Yes Yes/Yes
Antivirus actions Disinfect, quarantine, copy, rename, delete, shred (secure erasure) Clean, quarantine, delete
Automatic virus data files and engine updates? Yes. Updates published as required, typically daily. Yes. Pattern files are released bi-weekly or during a yellow/red alert.
Method of centralised deployment Pull (Web-to-server), Pull (server-to-server) or push (server-to-server), Pull (server-to-workstation) Generally push (depends on the desktop environment for client installation)
Supported environments Windows NT/2000/XP/2003, Windows 95/98/Me, NetWare, OS/2, Unix/Linux, Mac OS 8.1+ and 9, Mac OS X, OpenVMS, DOS/Windows 3.1x Client/Server, thin-client, Windows, Novell, Linux

 Virus vaccination

 Antivirus applications:

 ETrust AntiVirus 7.0
 McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 7
 Sophos AntiVirus
 Trend Micro AntiVirus
 Eset NOD32

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