Decision Support: A virus-protection chart

by Becky Roberts | Jan 13, 2004 8:00:00 AM

Tags: Tools & Techniques, SECURITY, Becky Roberts, decision support

Takeaway: Before you make a decision about what virus-protection software to use, check out this at-a-glance chart. We outline what the major products are and what they do.

With the sheer number and sophistication of contemporary network threats out there, securing the enterprise is an enormous and ongoing task. Your success as an IT Manager depends largely on your ability to plan, deploy, and maintain practical yet airtight security measures for the systems and networks you administer and support. This depends greatly on what strategies and practices you implement to proactively defend against and respond to attacks.

There are a lot of products out there designed specifically for blocking and fighting viruses. It's almost a full-time job researching these programs to find virus-protection products that match the scope of your enterprise as well as its budget. We've created a charticle that gives you straight-and-to-the-point information about the features and pricing of some of the top virus-protection software products out there. Click here to see the charticle.

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AV6 - What about it? thudson56 | 01/14/04

Free Wonders brendanfield@... | 01/15/04

Another vote for AVG mmoran@... | 01/15/04

High marks for AVG! GoodOyster | 01/15/04

AVG works and is user-friendly j.g. | 01/15/04

What he said... SeanMConsult | 05/28/04

Network Edition kittyhaus | 01/20/04

What about a single or home user? reefurbb@... | 01/15/04

AVG - Home use enigma29nice@... | 01/16/04

Grisoft plus... oromis@... | 01/21/04

I agree AVG is great! redcoolcar | 01/22/04

Another free AV solution brucewebs@... | 05/29/04

Question vlad_koz@... | 01/15/04

What about ViRobot Another Computer Guy | 01/15/04

re: Anybody tried the Kaspersky Anti-Virus? Godzonekid | 01/18/04

Kaspersky Labs... oromis@... | 01/21/04

null techie@... | 01/15/04

Agree but ... donli@... | 01/16/04

AVG IS THE BEST SO FAR dats_ripe | 01/22/04

Look more like a Marketing / Sales info sheet laman | 01/24/04

NOD32 TrubbleMaker | 02/13/04

null Ice Czar | 05/28/04

What about Hauri's ViRobot v4.0 up taktech@... | 05/28/04