Hey folks,
Need some input here.
I have been managing a 100+ node network for several years now and during those years I've worked with various antivirus solutions (McAfee, Norton, Panda and Kaspersky) and the same problem arose with them over time. They became huge and really bogged down my machines. Not to mention the number of times when an update caused all kinds of problems, forcing me to uninstall and then reinstall the program. I've pretty much come to the conclusion that antiviruses are more hassle than they're worth but they are also a necessary evil because the other option(no AV)is simply not possible .
In the last couple of years MalwareBytes has saved my butt more often that any antivirus I've had all these years.
Right now I'm contemplating letting my Watchguard UTM (which has builtin AV, IPS, IDS) do the actual initial...