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RE: Why NOT to disable Real Time Antivirus on Servers
From: "Depp, Dennis M." <deppdm () ornl gov>
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 13:46:55 -0500
Suppose a virus gets in before your virus definitions have been updated. How will you protect your servers, or clean them? Denny -----Original Message----- From: Thierry Zoller [mailto:Thierry () sniff-em com] Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 4:22 PM To: george.peek () gmx net Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: Re: Why NOT to disable Real Time Antivirus on Servers gpgn> He argues that since all of the workstations have the antivirus gpgn> enabled, then there is no way for the virus to get in. You should not rely on the user to have is AV solution enabled everytime. Then there are bugs, crashes in the AV soft, rogue workstations etc. Better have 2 lines of defencse than 1 here imho. gpgn> Mine argument that a virus can still get in through other gpgn> means. I need examples and case studies to refer to.
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