Avast for Business
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@Dashrender said:
@DustinB3403 said:
Avast for Business is free, but it appears to be lacking one critical functional; Scheduling (from the admin console).
It can be configured on the client computer directly, but this is less than ideal.
Why do you want scheduled scans? I rarely run them. Catching things that are running is what is really important.
I like having them run daily, but at night.
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I understand that it's been a staple of AV for years, but I wonder if it's time is done?
Just like the idea that AV based on definitions, that idea is done. If you're AV works based on that, I think I would just skip it altogether anymore.
Now if they include known bad website filtering, disable USB, etc... then it might be worthwhile.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I like having them run daily, but at night.
In this age of trying to save power by shutting down the PCs at night, not sure how likely this is? Can the AV turn the PC on at night, then off when done?
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Scheduling for me is for my servers, not the work stations.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I like having them run daily, but at night.
In this age of trying to save power by shutting down the PCs at night, not sure how likely this is? Can the AV turn the PC on at night, then off when done?
You could easily setup a boot-on-LAN packet to be set at a given time each night. Then schedule to update/scan for ~15 minutes after that. Then Shutdown 1 hour after the updates are scheduled. More work but doable.
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I've been using it at work and it seems to be ok. It's hard to beat the price.
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I am trialing it on my desktop and kid's laptop.
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@dafyre said:
Ah, cool. I'm not familiar with that one at all.
It has a lot less features, it's their free/freeium version. SOA and the enterprise console are far more advanced.
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@Dashrender said:
@DustinB3403 said:
Avast for Business is free, but it appears to be lacking one critical functional; Scheduling (from the admin console).
It can be configured on the client computer directly, but this is less than ideal.
Why do you want scheduled scans? I rarely run them. Catching things that are running is what is really important.
You can miss a lot by not doing them. We schedule them on Servers nightly, and Workstations weekly, they get picked up the next time they are on if they missed one (not Avast). There's a lot of things that get missed when using on-access scanning only.
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@Dashrender said:
I understand that it's been a staple of AV for years, but I wonder if it's time is done?
Just like the idea that AV based on definitions, that idea is done. If you're AV works based on that, I think I would just skip it altogether anymore.
Now if they include known bad website filtering, disable USB, etc... then it might be worthwhile.
The Scanning doesn't have anything to do with those features. having those wouldn't change weather it's worthwhile or not.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I like having them run daily, but at night.
In this age of trying to save power by shutting down the PCs at night, not sure how likely this is? Can the AV turn the PC on at night, then off when done?
Who does that? There's very little power to save on a modern computer at idle vs shutdown. It's a very minor business cost. That was the old school way of doing things. Most people leave them on 24/7 anymore.
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What we might do is for our non-servers go with the cloud free platform, and for the servers just purchase the standard business version.
Sure it splits up the monitoring, but at least it gives us the tools we need (for our servers), at a reasonable cost.
