My experience has been that you never know that you're really running AV on
*all* your network machines. We supposedly ran it on all our compters too,
but the first time I enabled AV on the filers, it started cleaning
virus-infected files within seconds. Thousands of them.
It only takes *one* infected machine on the network to roam through open
shares on a filer. Or even one machine with a not completely up to date
anti-virus definition.
I find the filer AV definitely worth it. There could be some performance
implications in some situations, and there are some files that even it can't
scan, such as deeply-embedded compressed files above a certain size, but
it's exponentially better than the zero protection you have without it.
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From: SKIP HOFMANN [mailto:SKIP.HOFMANN@ttisg.com]
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 1:35 PM
To: toasters(a)mathworks.com
Subject: Virus scanning for filers
Hello all
We are running AV on all our servers, and workstations. Is it also necessary
to run AV on the filer or is this overkill? Any known "gotchas" with Trends
filer protect?
Thanks a million
Skip Hofmann
Senior Network Administrator
TetraTech
Skip.Hofmann(a)ttisg.com <mailto:Skip.Hofmann@ttisg.com>
949 500 5286 cell
949 608 5801 office