I am curious to poll the collective intelligence of the pauldotcom.com list members on the subject of anti-virus on servers. Our data centre has been outsourced and the administrator are proposing to change the settings on our anti-virus to only do scans on write I/O only (no scanning on any Read I/O).
There are well known folders and file types that Microsoft recommends to exclude from anti-virus scanning (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822158 or http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823166 for Exchange 2003). The administrator were suggesting to exclude the C:\TEMP\ folder from any scans, which I objected to. That's too obvious of a location to exclude from scrutiny. So my question to you all is do you have a best practice that you follow when dealing with anti-virus on your servers? Any thoughts? Thanks, Francois
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