Some programs even have an enforcement feature that monitors and enforces the use of anti-virus software across the network. Remote installation and remote scanning are other important time-saving features. When a virus hits, alerting features should be extensive in order to reach the administrator, whether by network broadcast, fax, e-mail or pager. If you download files from the Internet, make sure the real-time protection catches any file when it is written to your hard drive. Also that it supports an option to scan for viruses in compressed file archives, such as ZIP, ARG and Microsoft Compressed.
Disaster recovery is unfortunately likely to be needed at some point.
A few anti-virus programs provide an option to save critical system files to a diskette. If an unknown boot sector virus strikes and cripples your computer, you can boot from the diskette and recover from the disaster. Network administrators should look for programs that save client system files to the server, avoiding reliance on people to find their recovery diskettes. You are not likely to spend too much time using your anti-virus software, but this does not mean it should be difficult to use. Actually, it's quite the opposite, when you need to do a full virus scan, the software must be simple to pick-up and use.