I would consider installing AV software on any server of a network. I do this
way. The CPU usage of the software does not kill the CPUs, so I don't see a
reason why NOT using an AV software.
I would consider using it even of WSUS server, an Intranet server, a web
printing server, whatever server it is (even an audit one!!)... truly I think
neither the license cost nor the CPU usage represents a reason to keep you from
installing the software on the server.
IMHO :)
Cheers
Sebastian Konstanty Zdrojewski
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Da: Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] [mailto:sbradcpa@pacbell.net]
Inviato: mar 19/07/2005 18.17
A: Depp, Dennis M.
Cc: Jeff; focus-ms@securityfocus.com
Oggetto: Re: Should webservers, eg. IIS 6 have anti--virus installed on them?
Okay..... so then
no OWA
no WSUS
no Sharepoint
We do get to do file and printing on this server or is that banned as
well? Define 'web server' folks because these days we 'are' running
IIS/web servers in our domains because [at least in the case of WSUS]
it's actually helping us reduce risk and not increase it.
Depp, Dennis M. wrote:
Jeff,
Interesting comments. Especially about not having IIS in a domain.
Gill,
To me the issue of virus protection depends on how you get content
installed on a machine and what type of content is on the machine If you
have a lot of users loading documents to your web servers, you might
want to consider adding virus protection to the servers. Of course you
should also have virus protection on the desktops as well. I would not
configure on access virus scanning, but instead would have scheduled
scanning.
Dennis
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