IPSWICH BOROUGH COUNCIL CHOOSES NOD32
ANTIVIRUS SYSTEM FOR BEST
DETECTION RATE

Ipswich Borough Council, like all council offices, has a reputation to maintain for quality of service, speed and accuracy. This ethos goes hand-in-glove with computer security and maintaining a strong antivirus protection policy. When Ipswich Borough Council’s desktop antivirus contract expired, it was an opportunity for the Council to do some market research to find the best solution for detection.

IT Network Manager, Howard Gaskin, looked at Norton, McAfee, Sophos and Eset for the most competitively priced and best detection rate solution. With sound advice from Bournemouth-based Aspect Systems, Ipswich Borough Council decided to opt for NOD32 antivirus system for their 800 desktops.

“The high detection rate from NOD32 is very much under published. It is also excellent value for money”, comments Howard Gaskin and continues, “You know you have installed a good product when the response from the users is quiet. When the phone doesn’t ring, you know that there have not been any reported problems or crashes”.

NOD32 is unique in the market place because of its smallest system footprint, ease of updating, 100% detection rates, boasting many major awards including the Virus Bulletin 100% award for the 23rd time in August 2003 and Best Antivirus Program of 2001 award from Australian PC User magazine. NOD32 is able to scan at a rate 2-50 times higher than the competition and has outstanding email scanning abilities that make it an excellent, cost effective, alternative to established brand name scanners.

The installation went smoothly. Aspect Systems provided Ipswich Borough Council with a free of charge Network Deployment Tool to enable them to load NOD32 onto their network, as opposed to individually downloading 800 PCs. “The roll-out went ahead relatively smoothly, and whatever teething problems we encountered, Aspect Systems were reliable and efficient to resolve them very quickly. So far I am very impressed with NOD32 and believe it should be considered as one of the leading suppliers in antivirus solutions”, comments Howard Gaskin.