Vircom modusGate and directQuarantine Review

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modusGate by Vircom is an email security product that includes anti-spam and anti-virus protection, as well as a range of other useful security and administrative features that are configurable to an impressive depth.

End of life for CA InoculateIT AV Engine in Microsoft Forefront products

From the Forefront Server Security blog: Engine and definition updates for the Computer Associates (CA) InoculateIT engine will end on September 29th, 2008. On January 16th, 2007, the Computer Associates (CA) InoculateIT engine was combined with the Computer Associates VET engine. Since the engines were merged, Microsoft has continued to provide engine updates for the [...]

Symantec Endpoint Protection is a Network Performance Threat

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I recently removed the Network Threat Protection component from the Symantec Endpoint Protection installation on all of the servers and desktops on a customer network.  Here is a list of things that happened as a result: Backup throughput increased by 50% (using Symantec Backup Exec 11d) Exchange backups stopped failing due to the remote agent [...]