we even went so far as to run a vm on our secured workstation within which to do the scanning, so we could kill the vm and everything in it if need be.
bruce
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Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Off Topic - Servers & Anti-Virus Protection
From: mike bader <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, May 11, 2012 9:23 am
To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List)
Yeah I like 'experts' like that and wide open unsecured networks, it keeps me in business :-)
At that time I found viruses not known in the US as we were an international company.
I worked with the anti-virus vendor to find a fix.
It is not fun to watch a virus run server to server and from workstation to workstation.
We setup an extra secure station to scan anything received from an unknown source.
On 5/11/2012 12:06 PM, Bruce Chitiea wrote:
right on, mike.
we ran successfully through the 2000's with the server-based Norton Enterprise Security, which protected the entire network. we ended up preferring the TrendMicro enterprise products which did the job without kitchen-sink bloat.
Bruce
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Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Off Topic - Servers & Anti-Virus Protection
From: mike bader <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, May 11, 2012 8:53 am
To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List)
Software on the server will usually notify the network administrators.
I got an alert and went to the clients desktop and made sure it was clean.
By the time I got back to my desk I had another alert.
Seems he reached in his desk and infected it again with something he got from another
employee or brought from home.
Server side software means only one virus definition update is needed.
Some can also make sure the workstation operating system is patched and updated.
For example if a person brings a laptop in and connects to the company network.
mike bader
On 5/11/2012 10:59 AM, Paul Buckley wrote:
I'd like to throw this out to this user group because I trust your opinions. I have a client that was told yesterday by some network/computer security "experts" that they do not need anti-virus protection on their Windows 2011 server because it does not do anything other than file services. It is attached to the network, obviously, and it does have Internet access. I have told them this B.S. Any other thoughts from you guys?Thanks in advance, Paul Buckley
