I went ahead and downloaded the 30 day trial just the other day of AVG File Server Antivirus. I only read one little review of the install on it on the Homeservershow site, I believe. After your trial, it is $39 per year. No need to uninstall and reinstall, simply place your purchased license in the subscription box in place of the trial license. It states on the AVG website that it is compatible to run on WHS 2011, and you get full support!
Install went very easy. Just make sure you use custom install and uncheck the remote administrator box on install procedure. It recognized the operating system, installed beautifully, and placed a shortcut on the server desktop. It asked to update. After that it won't prompt you.
It ran an intitial scan of the entire system, identifying two trainers for STALKER: Clear Sky (in my shared Data folders, as trojans. Kind of a false positive, but when you think of the scope of control those trainers have, it can easily be manipulated for less-than-upstanding purposes, so it's perfectly understandable. Once scan was finished I told it to just ignore that result, and went to double-check the resident anti-virus and resident rootkit protection settings. I just prefer a server AV to not prompt me.
At full scan it never used more than 22% of CPU power. While in resident mode, I checked Task Manager, and it has the tray app and resident scanner, each using a measly 250 to 300 kb of memory each. No, it doesn't integrate into the dashboard, but I have Advanced Admin Console anyway, so I have access to the desktop right in the dasboard, and can easily open it up from the shortcut I mentioned earlier that it installed.
So far, after two days, I'm very pleased. Detection is accomplished by both heuristics and definitions. It updates on it's own, runs quietly and plays nice with my WHS setup! It's not enterprise-priced, has full support, officially plays nice with WHS, and is unobtrusive.
Install went very easy. Just make sure you use custom install and uncheck the remote administrator box on install procedure. It recognized the operating system, installed beautifully, and placed a shortcut on the server desktop. It asked to update. After that it won't prompt you.
It ran an intitial scan of the entire system, identifying two trainers for STALKER: Clear Sky (in my shared Data folders, as trojans. Kind of a false positive, but when you think of the scope of control those trainers have, it can easily be manipulated for less-than-upstanding purposes, so it's perfectly understandable. Once scan was finished I told it to just ignore that result, and went to double-check the resident anti-virus and resident rootkit protection settings. I just prefer a server AV to not prompt me.
At full scan it never used more than 22% of CPU power. While in resident mode, I checked Task Manager, and it has the tray app and resident scanner, each using a measly 250 to 300 kb of memory each. No, it doesn't integrate into the dashboard, but I have Advanced Admin Console anyway, so I have access to the desktop right in the dasboard, and can easily open it up from the shortcut I mentioned earlier that it installed.
So far, after two days, I'm very pleased. Detection is accomplished by both heuristics and definitions. It updates on it's own, runs quietly and plays nice with my WHS setup! It's not enterprise-priced, has full support, officially plays nice with WHS, and is unobtrusive.