Sonicwall 2040 series gateway for AV protection thoughts? Opinions?

Sonicwall 2040 series gateway for AV protection thoughts? Opinions?

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Sonicwall 2040 series gateway for AV protection thoughts? Opinions? markm75 03-07-2008
Posted by markm75 on March 7, 2008, 12:17 pm
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We currently use TrendMicro AV protection on all the workstations,
which works rather well..

Exchange 2007.. we are testing out GFI mail security.. as there doesnt
seem to be alot of options out there for Exchange 2007.. (thoughts
here?)...

We have the 2040 series gateway, i noticed it had AV abilities for an
extra fee.. Anyone know anything about them or how good they are
compared to others? I'm guessing there is still a workstation or
server client to be installed?

Thanks in advance...


Posted by Burkhard Ott on March 7, 2008, 2:32 pm
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Am Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:17:31 -0800 schrieb markm75:

> We have the 2040 series gateway, i noticed it had AV abilities for an
> extra fee.. Anyone know anything about them or how good they are
> compared to others? I'm guessing there is still a workstation or
> server client to be installed?

Bad idea, it will slow down your connection.
You do better with a avclient on every workstation and control the clients
via a server.

cya

Posted by Leythos on March 7, 2008, 6:36 pm
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> Am Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:17:31 -0800 schrieb markm75:
>
> > We have the 2040 series gateway, i noticed it had AV abilities for an
> > extra fee.. Anyone know anything about them or how good they are
> > compared to others? I'm guessing there is still a workstation or
> > server client to be installed?
>
> Bad idea, it will slow down your connection.
> You do better with a avclient on every workstation and control the clients
> via a server.

No, you're better off with both for protecting your network, email, and
workstations.

You want your email scanned before it reaches your exchange server, the
firewall or a third party tool can do this very well, and considering
the speed at which email operates, it's not even something you will
notice.

You MUST KEEP AV ON WORKSTATIONS AND SERVERS, the gateway AV protection
is not good enough to do it all, and you don't want to take it off your
systems because there are more injection points than the Gateway can
protect you from.

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Leythos
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