I think this depends largely on the security strategy of your organisation.

For a business environment, I would suggest that you have as much security as the budget will allow whilst still maintianing relative ease for the bulk of users to keep being productive and making money for the organisation.

A a rule, security is best achieved through layers. For example, add another layer by introducing scanning on your filers. A "paranoid" approach would be to have a virus product from one manufacturer running on each resource type. i.e. Product A - Servers, Product B - Desktops, Product C -Filers. Of course budgeting realities may prevent this from being realised.

As for "gotchas"? In general, for Trend I would say no. But you do want to investigate the best practices guide on the NOW site regarding Trend and Filers. Particularly looking at the network connectivity design (GbE recommended) and mandatory scanning options ("off"). From a recent nasty experience we had, if you have multi-interface filers, request hotfix 1041 (Trend) be put in with the installation, just to be extra safe.

Other than that, Trend has been a solid solution.

--Aaron

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From: SKIP HOFMANN [mailto:SKIP.HOFMANN@ttisg.com] Sent: Tuesday, 2 November 2004 6:35 AM 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

Skip.Hofmann@ttisg.com mailto:Skip.Hofmann@ttisg.com

949 500 5286 cell

949 608 5801 office

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