Re: Why NOT to disable Real Time Antivirus on Servers

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Date: 11/03/05

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    Date: 3 Nov 2005 12:08:09 -0000
To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
    ('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) If your concern is resources being "eaten up" on the server, why not consider an antivirus gateway sitting in front of these critical servers to filter viruses that are targeted at them. Implement a policy where it requires staff to manually scan files before they are allowed to be physically introduced (by floppies, flash drives, external hard disks, etc) to these servers.
    This should serve to reduce the chances of viruses being introduced to these servers while at the same time meeting your requirement of not having AV running on the server.
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