My opinion is that this is not a good idea. Other experienced server admins have told me that Norton AV slows down the performance of a Web server to an unacceptable degree. In my estimation, AV software does not do a great job of protecting Web servers, since Web servers are not running E-mail clients and that is how most viruses seem to be spread these days. I do not believe AV software will protect against worms attacking newly discovered security holes in Windows, IIS, or SQL Server.
My recommendation is that, instead of real-time virus protection, servers be periodically scanned during off-peak hours, possibly using a different machine on the same network. Does anyone disagree with this?
Virus software has been running on many of the servers in my area for years, and the logs indicate that no servers have ever been infected, even though many viruses have spread through our desktop machines.
-Mike Chabot
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