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

From: Altheide, Cory B. (IARC) (AltheideC_at_nv.doe.gov)
Date: 07/21/05

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    To: "'Matthew Farrenkopf'" <farrenkm@ohsu.edu>, focus-ms@securityfocus.com, keydet89@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:12:25 -0700

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Matthew Farrenkopf [mailto:farrenkm@ohsu.edu]
    > Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 9:39 AM
    > To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com; keydet89@yahoo.com
    > Subject: RE: Should webservers, eg. IIS 6 have anti--virus
    > installed on them?
    >
    > Without AV software, I have no chance of catching anything
    > that comes into my server through unexpected means.

    Host intrusion detection is somehow a myth, then?

    Cory Altheide
    Senior Network Forensics Specialist
    NNSA Information Assurance Response Center (IARC)
    altheidec@nv.doe.gov
    "I have taken all knowledge to be my province." -- Francis Bacon

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