My $0.02: Since my scans are off hours, I scan daily. Having said that the real-time scans have caught 99.9% of the threats found so weekly is probably plenty.
+1 with others comments about .ZIP files. David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 -----Original Message----- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 4:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: About 2 Antivirus and Antispyware Policies of SEPM How often you scan depends on what your risk profile is. How likely do you think you might have viruses sneak in? And will your AV actually catch anything? Once a week is probably OK Scanning in zip files - viruses do spread themselves by simply zipping themselves up. Exactly what your users are doing to avoid being caught by your AV scanner! Do this scanning centrally (e.g. on your mail server) as the zip files go in/out is probably best. Cheers Ken ________________________________________ From: Jay Kulsh [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, 7 April 2009 6:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: About 2 Antivirus and Antispyware Policies of SEPM Thanks Roger for your input. (Suprised no one else has anything to say, since these should be common decisions to make...) Jay ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
