Re: Anti-Virus on Server - Advice

From: Srikrishna Komatineni (srikrishnak_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/10/05 

Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 08:11:21 +0800

My 2c here..
Trendmicro AV has been running quite good without any problems. IMHO the
server AV shall be dumb enough to allow the client connections without doing
much to the legitimate requests and at the same time protecting from viruses
or other such things..

so far Trendmicro proved it can do the job

"Richard Tubb" <richard@netlinktrading.co.uk> wrote in message
news:uhIjUkGtFHA.1252@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for opinions & advice on running Anti-Virus software on
> Windows 2000/2003 servers.
>
> I'd always suggested running AV software (such as Sophos' products) on
> file servers and e-mail servers, but have recently come across a scenario
> with a customer server that was labouring badly with high CPU usage.
> Although an AV product on the server wasn't the main culprit, when looking
> at ways to reduce CPU usage (as an upgrade was unlikely) I considered that
> incorrectly running an AV package on a file server might unnecessarily
> increase disk and CPU usage when checking every file it reads.
>
> Is there a best practice for AV on file servers? As long as a specific
> Server version of a vendors AV package is used, is this ok? What downsides
> if someone installed a standard desktop AV package on a server by
> accident - would this severely impair server performance whilst it AV
> checked every file it dealt with for LAN users? Even when running AV on
> the client desktop, is it still prudent to have AV on the file server?
>
> Any thoughts and opinions welcome.
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Tubb.
> www.netlinktrading.co.uk
>

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