What are some good ones?

Well, I am using Grisoft AVG File Server version 7 and have not found any issues with it.

Most standalone Antivirus usually have a server version cousin there. I tend to give McAfee and Norton a miss because they are industrial giants and from what I understand, those making viruses would tend to try to fool them.

Agreed AVG Server Edition is very nice

There is another post exactly like this in the windows os forum...

Grisoft AVG looks ok, but i'm not sure about licensing mode. In a webhosting scenario, what license you need? Are FTP-FrontPage considered connections that require license?

I use the 5 clients File Server License which works fine for my needs. I believe I paid $85 for a 2 years license.

You cannot use the personal license as they blocked it from being used on a Windows server.

Does it work with more then 5 clients connectd via FTP?

So far I have no problems with that. FTP and antivirus seems to be totally unrelated. The 5 clients limit was more for 5 LAN clients. On the system itself,it is just considered 1 client since I did not set it up as peer-to-peer or C/S mode.

It is entire the same as the standalone version except that there is no lock to prevent you from using on a Windows 2000/2003 server. The standalone version does check on which Windows version you use and lock it. I think it is just an issue of getting more money from corporate users.

Thanks eddy...

Looks good. Maybe i'll go for this antivirus...

bullguard seems to work good, plus it has a firewall.

I'm thinking about trying F-Prot.

I use F-Prot too. Had the best licensing fee as far as I could tell (AVG wasn't quite clear - which seems to be a problem with a lot of the Server AV out there now).

It works great hooked up with MailEnable (all my incoming email scanned and cleaned before it even gets to me). The only problem i had with it was that the real time scan needs to have a directory exclusion list and the server version has NONE. They say it's in the works since they do have one for the Win98 version.

All in all - after I set it up, I never touch it. It auto updates with the latest defs a few times a day and "it just works".

Which version do you have? Do you have to pay for the max simultaneous connections to the web server or can you use the AVG FS 5 for a web server since it's not really acting as a traditional Windows file server?

-- David

EDIT: Never mind. I see the answer above. I could have sworn that those posts weren't here when I posted this....

i was thinking about switching to NOD32, i am currently running our companys norton AV corporate, but i have heard that it is not the best choice for a server.

any have any input on NOD32?

I run NOD32 and have encountered no issues with using it under Win2k3.

Regards,

Martyn

I run NOD32 and have encountered no issues with using it under Win2k3.

Regards,

Martyn