You have to give me good reason not to run Antivirus on a server.  For
example, it causes the applications to hose up (which would suck but I know
happens).

Because I agree, there are too many opportunities for infection and a
multi-layered defense is better than a single-layered defense.

Signed, Once-an-Information-Security-Officer, Cyndi
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Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 6:24 AM
Subject: RE: UniVerse 10 on Win2k3


> up until yesterday i'd have agreed with you. However a client got infected
with a virus that symantec *claims* to have known about since December, but
wasn't actually detected until i sent them the sample and it appeared in
last nights defs!
> Virus spread via irc and *open admin$ shares* on the server - with weak
administrator passwords.
> Therefore the server got infected. A realtime scanner would have picked
this virus up this morning. (just make sure the realtime scanner does not
scan the database itself)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Youngman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Posted At: 24 March 2004 09:29
> Posted To: uniVerse
> Conversation: UniVerse 10 on Win2k3
> Subject: RE: UniVerse 10 on Win2k3
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>
> AARRGGHH!!
>
> NEVER EVER run antivirus on a server.
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