Re: Economical Anti-Virus Network Solution

From: Tony Lawrence (tony@pcunix.com)
Date: 05/15/02 

From: Tony Lawrence <tony@pcunix.com>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 10:09:37 GMT

Nick FitzGerald wrote:
> "Gary C. New" <ANTISPAM_garycnew_ANTISPAM@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>>I'm trying to build up a network wide anti-virus solution for my
>>company. We have a mixture of Windows (workstations) and Linux
>>(servers) systems and I am wondering what might be the most robust,
>>yet economical solution for such a network. Our SMTP, HTTP, and FTP
>>hosts are mostly Linux based with the exception of a Windows
>>File/Backup server. I was thinking of either a mail gateway, network
>>scan, client scan, or a combination scheme.
>
>
> The client is the last line of defense, so (generally) has to be
> the one you put the hard yards into. Far too many people make the
> mistake of going the "easy route" of grabbing server (or worse,
> just "gateway server") virus scanners and then kicking back,
> believing they have nailed the problem -- until the next cunning
> security exploit or previously unthought of "sneak around AV"
> trick comes out. Although it is not always the case, often these
> "tricks" are still detected on the desktop by heuristics and/or
> generic detection technologies after the "cunning trick" executes
> and unpacks the actual malware code.

Precisely. I sell a commercial (Linux based) server virus scanner, but
I advise my customers that they still should have something on the PC's
too. The server based stuff is convenient, but you want something on
the clients just in case. 

-- 

Tony Lawrence
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