[OT] Virus scanning strategies

[Randal, Phil]

It all falls apart when for whatever reason the antivirus fails (either
totally or to update patterns) on one or more of the desktops.  That's why
defence in depth is needed.

Phil

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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of shrek-m at gmx.de
> Sent: 30 January 2004 14:08
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: [OT] Virus scanning strategies
>
>
> Randal, Phil wrote:
>
> >>>c) IN a Company environment , Mailscanner yes or no, each computer
> >>>should run on-Demand Virus scanning.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>i prefer
> >>clients - "on-access"
> >>server - "on-demand"
> >>
> >>
> >When I set up our Netware servers I did virus scan on write, then a
> >scheduled overnight full scan.  But full on-access scanning
> on the desktop.
> >
> >
>
> why not?
> i can sleep very well with this setup since a few years
>
> viruses on the server
>   = 1 = eicar-test-virus
> viruses on the clients immediately shutdown by sophos
>   = no chance to infect other clients = ~ 30
>
>
> our file-server (no internet-access) has enough to do with serving the
> clients
> the clients have no problems with this setup.
> let tell it me "distributed server-virus-scanning from the
> client-side"
>
>
> nice article
> http://sophos.com/pressoffice/pressrel/us/20040121veritest.html
>
> --
> shrek-m
>