OS 10.6 Server - What virus software to install?

I run a small network with macs and pc's hooked up to the 10.6 snow server.
What virus software is best to install on the server to look for mac and pc virus's and malware?
Thanks

Mac boxes are generally immune to Microsoft Windows malware.
ClamAV can help you keep your shares clean of Windows malware, and the usual Windows AV client tools running on the Windows boxes can keep the Windows issues mostly under control, as well.
If you want suggestions for Windows AV tools, I'd suggest having a chat with the Microsoft folks.
If your Windows clients have anti-malware tools, then those should deal with infections from files residing on the shares. You may want to have just one Windows box configured to scan the shares, but that's an optimization.
But if you have your wallet open as wide as it appears to be, the anti-malware sales folks will find all sorts of stuff to sell you. MacAfee, Norton and Sophos are around for Mac OS X Server (and supersede what the integrated ClamAV provides), and opinions of these will vary. I run ClamAV, but then I also don't have a huge population of Windows boxes around, and those that are around have their own AV, and those Windows boxes generally aren't permitted to wander the open network.

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