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I note a Small Business Network version may become available.
I’m desirous of protecting a 3 to 5 node network running 98SE with 2k Pro at the frontend… No domain. What is the recommended avast! software and configuration?
Vlk
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No server OS? No file server? No mail server?
Vlk
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Well then life is simple - you’d only have to buy the appropriate N-pack of avast Professional Edition licenses, where N stands for the number of computers.
The pricelist is here: http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1298.html .
E.g. for 5 licenses with 1 year of updates it is $144.75 (please note that this is actually almost the same price as a 4-lic pack which is $135.80).
As about the configuration - that depends on how the computers are used (e.g. if any of them is somehow used as a file server, i.e. storage for shared files etc…).
Vlk
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The Windows 2k Pro machine is a file server. Your thoughts on the configuration and use of avast! would be appreciated.
Vlk
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The Windows 2k Pro machine is a file server. Your thoughts on the configuration and use of avast! would be appreciated.
OK then you can make the following changes on that machine:
- set the on-access scanner’s sensitivity to High
- turn on Silent mode in the Standard Shield’s settings, if there’s a chance that the machine will be left unattended while other people from other workstations will be saving files to that machine
- possibly create a schedule for an on-demand task to be run periodically (e.g. every night at 2am, provided you don’t turn your computers off…)
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Quite useful options that I had previously overlooked. Thank you for your recommendations!
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Would using the avast! screensaver, on the file server, accomplish the same thing? Am I correct to assume that when a screensaver scan finishes it will NOT start another full scan until such time that the screen saver is deactivated than reactivated???
kojak, when I tried the avast! screensaver it just ‘start’ a new scan from the beginning and not ‘resuming’ the previous running. Maybe it was fixed in the new updates but I did not try. 
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It’s amazing what one can find in avast!.. Go to the Screensaver tab and select Settings and then ‘Loop Scanning’. Selecting/checking the ‘Advanced Configuration’ will provide additional options for screensaver scanning.
Vlk
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Actually scheduling a task may be more appropriate then using the screen-saver because you can control when it’s going to run (and have complete control over the results) – i.e. it may not be appropriate to do those length, CPU-intensive scans during work hours as the overall performance of the system may rapidly decrease…
Just my €0.02 worth ;D
Is there any answer for my question? 