I was wondering of those that manage win2k3 servers across various domains, how many of you employ the use ot antivirus products like Mcafee and or Symantec? A firewall can only do so much but it wont stop a virus from infecting your machine. Are there heavy duty products out there for server enviroments?
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Antivirus and server enviroment
- Thread starter killerasp
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Cisco Router & Firewall at the ISP connection.
Catalyst switches at the access layers with VLAN's & ACL's to keep the servers separate.
Servers all have Symantec AV 9.0 Ent centrally managed for the AV defs. No need for a software firewall on the servers.
I'm more concerned about worms than virii on the servers, but Windows Updates and an up-to-date AV cover most of that.
The publicly accessible servers are in a DMZ with no/or only encrypted access back to the specific resource they need on the 'trusted' LAN
Catalyst switches at the access layers with VLAN's & ACL's to keep the servers separate.
Servers all have Symantec AV 9.0 Ent centrally managed for the AV defs. No need for a software firewall on the servers.
I'm more concerned about worms than virii on the servers, but Windows Updates and an up-to-date AV cover most of that.
The publicly accessible servers are in a DMZ with no/or only encrypted access back to the specific resource they need on the 'trusted' LAN
after thinking about symantec and their "real time file protection" which is a good thing. but having something liek this on a heavy loaded webserver will cause the AV program to scan each and every file that is accessed on the drive thus causing a heavy load.
Correct.
We run the real time scanning on almost all the drives except our email servers.
We exclude the \lotus\mail directory on Domino servers and the M:\ drive on exchange machines.
Unless your webserver is getting massively hit you probably won't notice the A/V running, but you can tell it to exclude the \wwwroot if you want.
We run the real time scanning on almost all the drives except our email servers.
We exclude the \lotus\mail directory on Domino servers and the M:\ drive on exchange machines.
Unless your webserver is getting massively hit you probably won't notice the A/V running, but you can tell it to exclude the \wwwroot if you want.