Hello ! ^^
I just bought a Windows 2003 Server.
I tried to install some antivirus & firewall but nothing is working?
Any ideas about a GOOD and FREE antivirus/firewall for Windows 2003 Server?
Thanks !
Hello ! ^^
I just bought a Windows 2003 Server.
I tried to install some antivirus & firewall but nothing is working?
Any ideas about a GOOD and FREE antivirus/firewall for Windows 2003 Server?
Thanks !
avg is teh best anti-virus in every 'black-hat / script kiddie' community I go to they always recommend it that or kaspery? and for firewall I've heard zone alarm but from my experience zone alarm lags your computer to shit...
unless the 2k3 server is going to have a public ip or use a usb router inbuilt firewall is good enough enable it in sevices and youre good to go :)
specialist firewall would be a dedicated computer running smoothwall linux based firewall distribution :)
zone alarm is ok but does lag speed wise and generally cluttered interface
back in win2k days when firewall wasnt intergrated i used Sygate firewalll but its now aqquired by symantec and is part of norton internet security which you do not want to install beacaus 90% of the computer will be stuggling to run that and other services will just cry
try and get defender pro its pretty good or kaspersky internet security its good to it wont let any thing go on unless you approve it!!
Yeah... You don't want to use Symantec Norton Internet Security. You want to use Symantec Internet Security Corporate Edition. That is what we use for our 2k3 servers in school and it doesn't bog down the system at all and the firewall is a damn good one.Originally Posted by omen
Also if you don't like the Symantec anti virus then try AVG Corporate Edition as it's an amazing anti virus.
And guess what. Since it's a server OS, you won't be able to find a good free antivirus for it. AVG is the best free one but it wont run on servers without buying it.
NoPeace - out
Though your request was for a good FREE Anti-Virus program and firewall, your going to have a tough time looking for one. Most companies release free editions for basic personal computer use. When it comes to servers and corporate computers, they generally want the user to pay. I'm guessing you were requesting an all-in-one package too. Nontheless, I'm going to somewhat offtopicly post in here now--
Awhile back, SSupdater.com did their own little non-bias test for finding out what the best Antivirus out there was. As with most tests out there, the results may not be 100% correct. Here's a copy of the results/setup (it was a forum post, therefore being unviewable to those without an account so I'm not going to bother directly linking it)--
[quote]We have updated our test results with 10 more programs, in total 30 programs have been tested now. No further updates will be made in this round of testing.
SSupdater.com is proud to announce the 2nd strike of our AV test. There
Anyway to secure a dedicated server with something free ^^? Windows 2003 doesn't support AVG
Nod32 only getting 95.46%? That doesn't sound right to me. Last time I checked they had the highest detection rate for all unknown viruses and malware, it was somewhere in the region of 80% followed by another antivirus at 70%(ish)
all antiviruses are shit all of them,
if you have some idea about malware, exploits, windows internals and coding
any virus that is out today can be masked into an unkown virus.
many viruses leave tracks and thats one of the ways antivirus finds it,
another is signature detection, another is the antivirus disasembles part of the program to find know or dangerous coding lines..
point is all antiviruses work in a similar fashion and the rate of discovery succes as listed in those kinda of sites depends on wether that month or week virus, worm, exploit makers choose to concertrate on previuously known or unknow or reused viruses.
also those results are incorrect since they should give false positive results aswell because if an antivirus finds every virus out there then its bound to accuse some innocent programs of being an antivirus ...
i have had viruses that no antivirus detects or even finds them suspicious, i had to reinstall to make sure its gone, (only way to find it was to get a program that shows all the dlls bound to every process)
i install antiviruses on my customers computers to give false hope in that they wont get a virus. but usually antiviruses are soo smart they only detect sneaky viruses not the ones that my customeres double click on .. you know the dumb ass scripts/programs made by begginer programmers that simply say delete some important windows system file so the os wont boot ..
there is no antivirus against stupidity - only thing is i cant say that to my customers so i put on a brave face nad say ill fix it...
It's definately not 95.46% detection rate for all goodies out in the world. You gotta keep in mind that the tests only used SSUpdater's batch of viruses, malware, etc, which I'm sure is very limited when compared to everything else out there.
The margin between NOD32 and the other anti-virus programs is not that large. Kaspersky, for example, gives it a great run for its money, no matter what the test. However, I too am a NOD32 user. It updates constantly, the GUI is great, and it uses very little resources. No matter what any tests say, I myself will stay with NOD32.
I somewhat disagree (to the part saying they're useless). I definately agree to the part saying "there is no antivirus against stupidity" (until skynet from the Terminator movies exists).
From what I've seen, 85% (random percentage) of the people who use viruses are script kiddies that don't know what they're doing. 85% (random percentage) of the people who catch these viruses are people who don't know what to look for and/or have little computer skills. I'd say that it deals with a decent amount of 'em, but, I suppose it does depend on the type of websites they go to, places they chat, emails they open, not to mention they get a large bonus if they haven't patched any flaws in the OS and get randomly raped via a loveable RPC vulnerability or other sexy equivalent.
I feel like we hijacked this thread :x Sorry Elrodkiller.
xD!
Hm, how to install Sygate Firewall on Windows 2003 server?
When I install it, I must restart the server and after I can't login :S It's "crashed"
Anyone now? =D
Hmm, is Peer Guardian a good firewall?
Someone has any idea about that ?!
Peer Guardian is really good.. But unless your using a p2p program such as Limewire, you wont need it.
peer guardian isnt a firewall as such - it filters only what is in the list, where a firewall filters everything except what is on the list.
get smoothwall .. its a pain in the ass to configure the first time but then you get mods and many other features (last time i checked vpn pass through you need to configure outside of gui)
AVG + Router (I only use Hardware Firewalls)
So if you need software firewall I'm not the guy to ask but for sure AVG is a great piece of software.
I have AVG running on Server 2003 Enterprise Edition so don't even say that. You just need to get the professional version of it.
Get a newer version of the firewall. Not much else you can do.
You do realize a firewall does 1 of 2 things. Either only allows certain ports and blocks the rest or the opposite which allows everything but certain ports.
So that is a firewall.
You really need to learn what things are. I've seen you say crap like this all over here and it's getting a bit annoying.
NoPeace - out
I use AVG.
It doesn't freeze the computer while it's scanning, and it's simple, and efficient.
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