Guest Geneb Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Hi all I thought i would ask on here due to the large amount of I.T. bods here, The problem i have is at the moment i'm getting on average 12 virus infected P.C's a day to fix and its starting to slow us down so i built 3 of the following spec'd machines to deal with them: FULL TOWER CASE WITH SIX REMOVABLE DRIVES INTEL MAINBOARD forgot what chipset but it cost alot CORE 2 QUAD CPU 2.4GHZ 2GB-DDR2 800 136GB RAPTOR 10'000RPM DRIVE SONY SATA DVD-REWRITER 800WATT PSU WINDOWS XP PRO The idea being that its quicker to remove the drives and clean them but i cant seem to find a decent AV thats both quick and reliable. Any idea's guys on what software to use on the following system would be of great help. Thx Andy excuse the spelling but im f**ked as i've been working till midnight nearly evernight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozz Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Can't you treat the root rather than the effect? Would be far more time efficient. I don't know your environment but if you are getting that many problems I'd consider a tool like Deep Freeze (faronics, IIRC). It around £12/PC and after a simple restart ANY problem (supposedly including reformatting) are cured. I rolled it out to a local council once and it massively reduced support enquiries. Not suited to all environments though. Aside from that, identify where its coming in. I run around 400 PCs across 3 sites and never have to clean virus manually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marbleapple Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Can't you treat the root rather than the effect? Would be far more time efficient. I don't know your environment but if you are getting that many problems I'd consider a tool like Deep Freeze (faronics, IIRC). It around £12/PC and after a simple restart ANY problem (supposedly including reformatting) are cured. I rolled it out to a local council once and it massively reduced support enquiries. Not suited to all environments though. Aside from that, identify where its coming in. I run around 400 PCs across 3 sites and never have to clean virus manually. I'm no IT bod but above does sound like sense to me. How on earth do you get so many viruses a day? I couldn't do that if I tried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz6002 Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 surely hardware firewalls would be a better bet?! Or is it a targetted attack? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 I believe Andy builds PC and supports general public, so yeah that would make sense.. What about a Sata USB docking bay (Maplin code A83HQ) and a Pata one to match, a few of those on a decent USB2 system should be okay, I wouldn't stress over the CPU or motherboard because your biggest bottleneck will always be the disk (maybe the USB2 at a push), but if you put them on different USB controllers you should be able to do a few at a time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Geneb Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Sorry Guys i should have explained these are the general publics P.C's i'm just looking for a quicker way of cleaning them, Gav the towers have 1x IDE removable hotswap caddie and 4x SATA removable hotswap caddies in them bud. Just tried running that new AV called MultiCore which seems to have done a good job but its just a bit slow. Well i have just finished todays bout of virus killing, God i'm tired and to top it all the old bill gimme a pull on the way home for driving a bit aggressively or pissed. Time for bed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Sorry Guys i should have explained these are the general publics P.C's i'm just looking for a quicker way of cleaning them, Gav the towers have 1x IDE removable hotswap caddie and 4x SATA removable hotswap caddies in them bud. Just tried running that new AV called MultiCore which seems to have done a good job but its just a bit slow. Well i have just finished todays bout of virus killing, God i'm tired and to top it all the old bill gimme a pull on the way home for driving a bit aggressively or pissed. Time for bed If you consider what an AV program does and attack the problem that way, you can then optimize what you need to with a bit of investigation. Essential all an AV program does is load a file into memory and then perform a pattern search (to some degree) on it, and then carries on. One thing I've always noticed is that AV programs hammer the HDD a lot harder than anything else. So what about trying using multiple SATA controllers, specially on different PCI-E cards as it should help off-load some of the load off the south-bridge SATA/PATA interface. Your other option could be to build a few Intel Atom based mini-pcs and just hopper load them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaveriK Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 Your other option could be to build a few Intel Atom based mini-pcs and just hopper load them? Would be the way i attacked it as well. Whatever system you put together the time is going to be taken sweeping a disk at a time. KVM switch with a shed full of pc's hung off it and either USB/Firewire caddies or hopper. I would want to pass each disk with a couple of solutions, reboot and pass again to ensure the little devils dont come back. Measure twice cut once sort of thinking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caseys Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 Ever considered moving towards a VM based architecture? Computer have a virus? No problem! It's virtual... reload the image, viola. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozz Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 lol with you now. I'd say you're on the right track, removing the drives would be a faster option. We use Trend, but that is for corporate control, I don't know how well it would perform in your environment as its more about prevention and detection rather than scanning performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 Umm...surely the easy solution is just bill for the time it takes their slow ass computers to do it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRD3000GT Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 Bitdefender has served me well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 Umm...surely the easy solution is just bill for the time it takes their slow ass computers to do it? Exactly. And why bother with this removing drives to put them in another computer? I can't imagine you're going to save that much time, if any. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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