Re: StandGuard

Jeff,

I've been using Standguard for a few months now.  Right now I have
absolutely no complaints.  I do know other shops are using their standard
AV program and scanning the IFS on the iSeries through mapped drives.  We
were doing the same but decided to implement Standguard due to performance
reasons and other issues with our AV vendor.  It sounds like some other
people on this list have not had the problems that we've had so take my
claim with a grain of salt.  My iSeries systems have a decent amount of IFS
objects and with our previous AV product (not to be mentioned) one of my
systems was actually taking over 6 hours to scan.  With Standguard I'm down
to 1 hour.

I do know that Norton also makes something for the iSeries but I really am
not aware of what it does or doesn't do.  I believe it is a Lotus Domino
interface.

Another point I would like to make is that from a security perspective our
company actually prefers to not use just one AV product.  So while being
integrated with my LAN counterparts could be nice we also specifically
chose to use a second product for that reason also.  The logic being is
that having more than one vendor might improve scanning on our systems in
total.  Not all AV products are perfect, not all work exactly the same, not
all are updated in the same manner, etc., etc.  Sounds nice anyway.


Michael Crump
Manager, Computing Services
Saint-Gobain Containers
1509 S. Macedonia Ave.
Muncie, IN  47302
(765)741-7696
(765)741-7012 f
(800)428-8642

"I shall often go wrong through defect of judgement.  When right, I shall
often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of
the whole ground.  I ask your indulgence for my own errors, which will
never be intentional, and your support against the errors of others, who
may condemn what they would not if seen in all its parts."  Thomas
Jefferson






                                                                                
                                                        
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I got a 15-day trial of StandGuard (virus scanning for IFS) from Byteware
yesterday.  So far I like what I see.

Job schedule entries update virus defs and do an IFS scan.  The trial will
only scan QIBM and it's subdirectories, however.

It also has an SMTP component that, if you are using the iSeries messaging
facility, will check all incoming mail for viruses and forward them to
whatever email address you say.  I set it to forward them all to me.
Overnight we got that new virus 30 times.

Is anyone out there currently using this?  How is it over time?

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Jeff Crosby
Dilgard Frozen Foods, Inc.
P.O. Box 13369
Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
260-422-7531

The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily the opinion of my
company.  Unless I say so.