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

From: Harlan Carvey (keydet89_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/20/05

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    Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 16:49:09 -0700 (PDT)
To: Steven Hay <shay@communitysavings.ca>, focus-ms@securityfocus.com

    > I have a completely different view. I think that
    > AV, while not the silver
    > bullet, is a solid line of defence.

    Perhaps, but from what? It won't protect the box from
    being broken into, and the argument that it will
    protect you from things we don't know about yet just
    doesn't hold.
     
    > The more
    > lines of defence you have, the more proactively you
    > have secured your environment.

    And the more things you have to manage, and the more
    things you have to look at when troubleshooting an
    issue...and yet another set of logs that you have to
    review.

    > In a perfect world everything would be nicely
    > secured, things like Windows
    > and TCP/IP would have been designed for security and
    > we would all be proactive not reactive.

    But you can be proactive with Windows...there are a
    great number of things you can do to secure a Windows
    system proactively. The problem is that few of them
    are done.

    Harlan

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    "Windows Forensics and Incident Recovery"
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