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Centralized virus protection for home network
Hi,
I'm contemplating configuring a Windows 7 system I have sitting here as a central virus scanner. I'm looking at two concurrent scenarios;
(1). Scan files downloaded by family members
(2). Run scans across my server from the central machine
For (1) I can easily set all download programs like Free Download Manager, DAP, Getright or whatever to always save to a drive on the virus testing machine. Infected files would be sent to a quarantine folder, and clean files would be sent to a "clean" folder.
Likewise for (2) a scan of the map drives each night is easy to set up, though I need a list of files to ignore to prevent false positives.
A couple of questions though;
1. How to make Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome always save to the testing machine, and not to the local machine
2. Any recomendations on what software might offer the best security and flexibility (and I know there are litterally dozens out there, but I'm hoping some one who has worked in corporate environments who use similar virus techniques might have some valuable insights and experiences to share)
3. I'd like to have alerts sent to my machine if anything undesirable is detected.
The network configuruation is 7 Windows 7 client systems, 1 windows XP client and 1 XP system running as a server with coldfusion and IP camera software. These are connected to a gigabit DLink switch and then a netgear WNR3500 router. All cabling and systems support Cat6. All of the Windows 7 clients are running X64 with at least 4gb of RAM.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
thanks