Is Trend Micro the best AV for SMB?

I've been looking for reviews & recommendations without luck. My clients run SBS 2003 standard with less than 10 employees. I'm looking for an exchange-aware solution. Is Trend the best? What about Symantec w/Groupware protection? This is an open call for opinions.

 

Best? I dunno.

I do know that we have a fairly large network with 6 Exchange Servers and a herd of users. Trend has done a good job for us with ServerProtect on the servers (duh) and OfficeScan for the workstations.

No idea about the money part of it. No experience with SBS and none with Symantec's stuff.

The remote control/remote monitoring piece of Trend is not a thing of great beauty (clunky, in fact - but functional) and I really wish they'd improve it but the functionality of the protective app itself is good.

 

Very Happy with Trend products.
Recomend it to all my clients.

www.provantage.com has some very good prices on trend products.

If you have anything else you qualify for the competetive upgrade and quite honestly I have never had them ask for any type of verification.

You can download any of trend's products for a free 30 day trial and have full functionality

 

Anyone have experience with Panda Software AV?

Has anyone here used Panda's Business Secure w/True Prevent or the Business Secure Exchange w/True Prevent? That is what I have been looking at lately, however, the pricing is a bit more than the Trend software.

Does the Trend Software allow you to push the client software out from the server to the client pcs? Is it integrated with exchange?

This is an expensive purchase and I would hate to make the wrong choice. I believe both products have 30-day trials and/or money-back guarantees though.

 

Trend allows you to do both of those things. I've installed the 30-day trial on my client's server and 7-client network. Works great. As soon as I get the licence key, I just plug it in on the server and I'm done. Easy as 1-2-3!

 

Thanks for the update! Which Trend product did you use?

I have a very similar network. Less than 10 clients (for now) and 1 server running Windows SBS 2003.

 

I am using Trend C/S/M for SMB - very reasonable price...

 

C/S/M SMB CU is 22.54 a seat here.
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