Norton AntiVirus and Mac OS X Server

[kananga]

Has anyone used Norton AntiVirus on Mac OS X Server 10.3.x or 10.4.x? What has your experience been like — problems, issues, etc?

[Anonymous]

dont do it! it will peg the cpu.
just keep your dbs backed up and rely on apples usual recommendation: format.

[Moofo]

HI !

I had a request fromn the sysadmin here to install Norton Antivirus for Mac on our Xserve machine. Namely, we have G4-G5 Xserves and one Intel Xserve. Many PC’s are connecting to them and we had several viruses on the server themselves. Thing is, the PC workstations are AVID workstations, and we can’t install Antivirus Software on them, as reckless as it may sound for Windows machine.

The software performed so badly on the mac workstations that I had to take it off. By this experience, I must say I’m very reluctant to install it on server machines.

What is your opinion ? Anyone tried it ?

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