We put AV on any OS Device regardless of what it is, Virtual or Physical if they are connected to the network where they can talk do any other devices. The risk is too great.
From: N Parr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 11:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VMWare View, How are you handling AV? (Viper to be specific) So does anyone have any pointers on this? Are you just not worrying about it since you can wipe the linked clones out at any time if they get infected? I'm sill worried about handling outbreak protection. Don't care if the clone gets hosed but I don't want all my clones getting infected with something and trying to spread it around. If you install AV on the base image and don't use persistent clones then they will have to update signatures every time they boot from the day the base image was created. If you use persistent clones then their deltas will grow because of signatures being added every day. And then you've got licensing and agents on linked clones trying to update from the enterprise server with a pc name that is different than the base image they were created from. I don't think a lot of AV vendors have really thought this type of situation through. _________________________________________________________ This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges. This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete the original message and any attachments from your system. _________________________________________________________ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
