ThatsMyTicket
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Hi,
I will start by saying I am not in any way a network admin.
My boss has recently tasked me with trying to find a cheap (ie, FREE or dirt cheap) way to add security to our server (anti-virus, etc). I am not sure what is required to protect a server, as opposed to just one of our regular work machines. What I do know is that it is a very simple set up:
1 server, running MS Storage Server 2003 R2. Six or Seven machines networked to it as well as three printers. Our internet connection runs from that machine into a router and then out to the rest of us. We have large image database (art files) saved on that server with an external hard drive for back up. Symantec Back Up is installed, and we had a trial version of Avast!, which ran out - and he didn't want to pay the $400+ for the licenses. This is not a mail or web server, we do all that through Yahoo.
I really don't know where to start. Do I need "Server Protection" for a network that small, or will a regular old free anti-virus, like Ad-Aware, work?
Any suggestions people could give would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
I will start by saying I am not in any way a network admin.
My boss has recently tasked me with trying to find a cheap (ie, FREE or dirt cheap) way to add security to our server (anti-virus, etc). I am not sure what is required to protect a server, as opposed to just one of our regular work machines. What I do know is that it is a very simple set up:
1 server, running MS Storage Server 2003 R2. Six or Seven machines networked to it as well as three printers. Our internet connection runs from that machine into a router and then out to the rest of us. We have large image database (art files) saved on that server with an external hard drive for back up. Symantec Back Up is installed, and we had a trial version of Avast!, which ran out - and he didn't want to pay the $400+ for the licenses. This is not a mail or web server, we do all that through Yahoo.
I really don't know where to start. Do I need "Server Protection" for a network that small, or will a regular old free anti-virus, like Ad-Aware, work?
Any suggestions people could give would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!