Looking for an AV solution with these features

TheSmJ

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At work we're looking to upgrade our current AV system (AVG) to something more modern.

Here are the requirements:

Exchange scanning
SQL scanning
Centrally managed
Deployable
AD integration

Now, If I'm not mistaken Symantec offers these features, but I've never been a huge fan of their products in the past. Perhaps there are better alternatives?

EDIT: Has anyone used Sophos before? Looks like it might fit the bill.
 
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Forefront? Covers about everything except for SQL as far as I can tell.
 
Forefront does look really nice, however we do not have SCCM where I work, and licenses for that as well as Forefront would cost a fuckton from the looks of it.
 
Vipre i use at work but careful their installer can be flaky and kill a NIC requiring a remove of said NIC and re-install.. had this happen on an update 2 versions ago, their updated version killed about half of the workstations in my office, Inet down for them all, had to uninstall Vipre... uninstall NIC and reboot for it to work again since their AV install a NIC driver to scan traffice, it also fubar'd a few servers which caused problems for me for about 2 days recovering from it cause their software would uninstall but it left the NIC driver installed, this also screwed up my broadcom NIC team configs i had on some storage servers and all i got from GFI/Vipre was "sorry... just uninstall.." as a response...

and the fact you have been using AVG is a scary thought since they went to crap sometime ago..

what is your budget?

you should NOT be scanning a SQL database, period...

also Exchange, you mean emails.. you should get something like GFI Mail essentials for exchange for that specifically and then get say Vipre for your workstations and other servers
 
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