Antivirus for Exhange 2003?

[rsb]

Hi.

Could somebody recommend a Anti virus product for Exchange 2003?

Do it need to be a special version or could it just be a regular that support Windows 2003 Server?

Thanks in Advance

[cluberti]

If you're talking about antivirus for scanning inbound email messages inside Exchange, yes, you need a product that uses the Exchange VSAPIs. A regular Windows antivirus program will scan the OS, but not the store.

There are lots of antivirus applications out there, but I personally use GFI's MailSecurity suite, which has 4 antivirus engines plus antispam and some other features and it cost me about what I was paying just for Symantec's Exchange package previously, and it seems to work at least as good, if not better.

[eyeball]

yeah GFI rules, its been running on a lot of our systems for a long time now and you get so used to it being there, the minute a service stops or something, you really see what a difference it makes

[Bad boy Warrior]

We use Sophos, scans incoming/outgoing mails along with the Exchange store etc and is integrated with AD (if you want it to be), the AV is pretty powerful too, fast and can control everything from the server (including client software updates). Also includes a firewall if you really need to use it.

One feature i really like is the ability to control what applications and ports can be run or blocked