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.
From: SKIP HOFMANN
[mailto:SKIP.HOFMANN@ttisg.com]
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004
1:35 PM
To: toasters@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
949 500 5286 cell
949 608 5801 office