Re: Virus Scanning Busy Web Server

Brock,
McAfee should not be running at 100% even if the server is heavily used, so maybe the problem is not the settings.
You'd expect the server to have very few writes, so it should be possible to set the on-access scanner to scan on writes and not reads; but I don't think that should be necessary,
Anthony
http://www.airdesk.com



"Brock Hensley" <Brock@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ED4AD753-EC43-4CCD-B1EA-88627FC6A500@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello,

We have McAfee Enterprise v8.7i installed on a Win2k3 STD 32bit Web Server.

I've been playing around with the On-Access Scanner settings to try to get the virus scanner to scan files only when being written to, but no matter what settings I adjust, it seems the web server just has too much going on for McAfee not to run at 100% CPU to monitor all the changing files.

My question is, what are the essential/best Anti-Virus settings for busy web servers?

Should I just monitor the C: system drive, or the D: data drive?
Should I worry more about changing files on the C:\WINDOWS folder vs the D:\Inetpub folder?
Should I exclude Temp folders? (or is this a prime spot for viruses to create themselves?)

Thanks for any input in advance,
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Brock Hensley
http://BHensley.com
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