speaking of which, eEye just released a free Nimda scanner if anyone's
interested. if you don't know who eEye is and you admin WINNT or WIN2K
servers, you should - http://www.eEye.com.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Woods [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 4:00 AM
To: CF-Server
Subject: RE: Success with NetShield 4.5 ?
I agree with Justin, running a virus scanning tool (well, especially in
real-time mode) is unnecessary and in some cases is of no help. Free tools
like URLScan and IISLockdown from MS will protect from known and potential,
un-discovered, vulnerabilities and following the security guidelines for
your system (i.e. not just IIS) and keeping up to date with security
patches will keep your system very secure.
Mark
At 05:45 PM 9/24/2001, you wrote:
>I'm not familiar with the specific product... but wouldn't it be much
>better just to keep up to date on patching your server? In the event of a
>new work virus definitions wouldn't be out and update for at -least- a few
>hours at which point it could very well be too late. In the case of Nimda
>the first report I saw of it was on BugTraq at 1pm EST, the virus was
>first spotted at 9:08 EST and by 1pm I had already received well over a
>thousand hits from infect machines.
>
>Besides, it only spots known worms and virri anyhow. It won't stop a
>random script kiddie from trying a three month old exploit on your machine
>and getting through.
>
>Justin Buist
>Trident Technology, Inc.
>4700 60th St. SW, Suite 102
>Grand Rapids, MI 49512
>Ph. 616.554.2700
>Fx. 616.554.3331
>Mo. 616.291.2612
>
>On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Dalrymple, B Keith wrote:
>
> > Better a risk of a little performance loss than complete shutdown form
an
> > infection!
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 11:22 AM
> > To: CF-Server
> > Subject: Success with NetShield 4.5 ?
> >
> >
> > I am considering installing Network Associates' McAfee Netshield 4.5 SP1
on
> > several NT4 SP6a IIS 4 servers. I've always been reluctant to install
such
> > software for fear it would create performance or stability problems.
Any
> > positive or negative experiences out there?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> > Martin Herbener
> >
> >
>
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