So,
No one puts virus software on servers then?
Regards
Dale Fraser
http://dalefraser.blogspot.com http://dalefraser.blogspot.com
From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of AJ Mercer
Sent: Saturday, 16 June 2007 10:58 AM
To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com
Dale,
We haven't on any of our servers, due to the fact that 99% are shared
hosting and we can't do that. And with the 1% of servers that are not on
shared, these are intranet solutions that are under strict user virus
protection anyway.
So I guess I am off no help to you there.
Hi Dale,
Dale Fraser wrote:
So,
No one puts virus software on servers then?
The quick answer, for our context at least, is no :-)
By virus software I assume you are talking about a virus scanner. By
default such a beast will trigger for any file write by the OS. That
will stop a web
The other thing to note. Which I did look into, but never implemented in any
solutions.
Most server virus protectors, can be run from the command line. Not sure
about workstation versions, never looked into them that deeply.
But the concept was simple, as normally the only files that really
Hi Guys,
So no one even runs nightly/weekly schedule task to even scan the Domains
folders for viruses, so you could have Trojans on the server and you
wouldn't even know about it.
So you guys don't really care since it's a shared hosting environment?
I fully understand that you cant run a
That is why I couldn't comment on Shared hosting, we do not have access to
install such software and we do not have any files to be uploaded (via the
website) so it was not a concern for us to worry about looking into.
Andrew Scott
Senior Coldfusion Developer
Aegeon Pty. Ltd.
www.aegeon.com.au
Well... what exactly are you afraid of?
Your server being compromised by a virus? Users downloading an infected
file? Users uploading an infected file?
Mitigating those threats will need different approaches, and the
approaches will vary widely depending on your architecture and
just in case this has slipped under the radar
http://www.markszulc.com/blog/2007/06/17/upcoming-developer-eseminars-for-anz-developers/
not a lot of specific CF content coming up but at least it's something.
So if we can get behind it this may be the start of something, perhaps
as a vehicle to
Cool,
A good FYI to keep a note off.
Andrew Scott
Senior Coldfusion Developer
Aegeon Pty. Ltd.
www.aegeon.com.au
Phone: +613 8676 4223
Mobile: 0404 998 273
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