Winner in Exchange Anti Virus Solution Category of Readers' Choice Awards: Symantec Mail Security

April 21st 2005 – Symantec Mail Security was selected the winner in the Exchange Anti Virus Solution category of the MSExchange.org Readers’ Choice Awards. Trend Micro ScanMail and Network Associates Technology's McAfee GroupShield were runner-up and first runner-up respectively.

The results of this year's preferred Exchange Anti Virus solution are very similar to the previous results. Symantec has been voted the favourite Anti Virus solution for Exchange the second year running, gaining the same high percentage of votes as it did last year. This second seal of approval given by MSExchange.org members further cements Symantec's popularity among Exchange Server administrators. Of note as well is the sharp increase of votes for Trend Micro ScanMail. ScanMail came a very close second compared with last year's results. See the full results of the Readers' Choice for Exchange Anti Virus solution 2004.

“Our Reader’s Choice Awards give visitors to our site the opportunity to vote for the products they view as the very best in their respective category,” said Stephen Chetcuti, MSExchange.org manager. “MSExchange.org users are specialists in their field who encounter various solutions for Exchange Server at the workplace. Their vote serves as a solid peer-to-peer recommendation of the winning product.”

Regular polls are conducted to discover which product is preferred by Exchange administrators in a particular category of third party solutions for Microsoft Exchange Server. The awards draw a huge response per category and are based entirely on the visitors’ votes. MSExchange.org users can submit their votes for the current Readers' Award poll in the site’s left-hand bar.

If you'd like to know who the past Readers' Choice winners were, please take a look at our Readers' Choice Awards Yearly Roundup.

MSExchange.org Readers' Choice Awards for 2005

Even more awards will be given out during 2005. Visitors to MSExchange.org will once again have the opportunity to vote for their preferred Exchange Server products. Below is a list of the Readers' Choice categories and the month that visitors can submit their votes.

• Exchange Anti Virus - March 2005 - Symantec Mail Security
• Exchange Backup - April 2005 - Veritas Backup Exec
• OWA Addons - May 2005 - Messageware’s AttachView for OWA
• Exchange Anti Spam - June 2005 - GFI MailEssentials
• Exchange Archiving - July 2005 - Vertias’ Enterprise Vault 
• Exchange Hosting - August 2005 - USA.NET
• Exchange Fax Connectors - September 2005 - GFI FAXmaker
• Exchange Migration - October 2005 - NetIQ Exchange Migrator
• Exchange Administration - November 2005 - Quest Spotlight on Exchange
• Exchange Reporting - December 2005 - Fortis Software Exchange Monitor

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