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@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

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