RE: Should webservers, eg. IIS 6 have anti--virus installed on them?

From: Jeff (jeff_at_turbofish.com)
Date: 07/18/05

  • Next message: Brady McClenon: "RE: Should webservers, eg. IIS 6 have anti--virus installed on them?" 
    To: <focus-ms@securityfocus.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:15:15 -0500

    Another thing with IIS is it is always good to keep it out of the domain
    altogether. Plus, I monitor all traffic to and from the machine. For
    example, our email/IIS server doesn't attach to the network, it sits all by
    it's lonesome on a completely different hub that doesn't touch any of the
    networked machines. Ok, it doesn't really get lonely, I talk to it everyday
    and it does sit right next to the other servers. I think I caught it winking
    at the big SQL server the other day - people are beginning to talk.
    But seriously, you need to check SP everyday and keep all of the holes
    filled so yes, you are correct, that is number one. At the same time, I have
    found it helpful to pick and choose which patches to install. I have had
    hardware updates from Microsoft that caused me nothing but grief.

    Other concerns with running a IIS server is data. I don't even like hooking
    it's SQL server [smallish - just to run web data with] with our big SQL
    server because of security reasons. I even turn off the lights just so that
    the other servers won't get jealous

    Viruses shouldn't be too much of a trouble with IIS because the vast
    majority of all viruses are activated via email, the rest with a few rogue
    sites. Don't run an email client on it, don't surf the web with it, keep all
    extra ports locked down, keep all of the service packs and security
    releases, be careful if you run an email server that saves the emails in
    temp files, and just as an extra protection, it wouldn't hurt to have a
    anti-virus running.

    Ok, I'm going home to start working on the non system admin programming side
    of my job - maybe even get some sleep. I hate these 16 hour work days
    without sleep. You know it's bad when I enjoy getting a power outages that
    knocked off all of the PC's in our network. No power, no PC/server problems!

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Shyaam
    Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 10:20 AM
    To: ssgill@gilltechnologies.com
    Cc: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
    Subject: Re: Should webservers, eg. IIS 6 have anti--virus installed on
    them?

    According to my level of knowledge(which is very minimal, in this
    especially), I would say that a web server should be patched well first. the
    anti-virus is a secondary issue. Ofcourse, you need an antivirus too, but
    there should always be good patches implemented which checks for the latest
    signatures.
    --Shyaam

    On 7/17/05, Sarbjit Singh Gill <ssgill@gilltechnologies.com> wrote:
    >
    > Greetings
    >
    > Should IIS have anti-virus installed on them. I know I would do it for
    > a fileserver but for IIS, I rather lock it down.
    >
    > Thanks.
    > /Gill
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Thank you in advance for your time and consideration.
Yours Sincerely,
R.S.Shyaam Sundhar
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