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Re: Poll: Anti-Spyware on servers
From: Graham Toal <gtoal () UTPA EDU>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:49:21 -0500
We recently began deploying CounterSpy Anti-Spyware throughout our College, and a debate has arisen over whether or not it is needed on Windows servers. Some administrators feel that it is unecessary and potentially harmful to servers, so I'd like to get an idea on whether or not some higher education enterprises deploy anti-spyware on their servers. Thanks.
This may be a little naive, but if you remove the browsers from your servers, and the email programs, there are few ways left that you're likely to pick up spyware. Browsing and email reading on servers should be banned by your Best Practises document, or your Server Policy document if it is that detailed. This doesn't account for the CYA factor but it does reduce the actual risk by 99.9% Graham (a big fan of Gordian Knot solutions)
Current thread:
- Poll: Anti-Spyware on servers Basgen, Brian (Jul 10)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Poll: Anti-Spyware on servers Lucas, Bryan (Jul 10)
- Re: Poll: Anti-Spyware on servers Graham Toal (Jul 10)
- Re: Poll: Anti-Spyware on servers Consolvo, Corbett (Jul 10)
- Re: Poll: Anti-Spyware on servers Nick Lewis (Jul 10)