Re: OT: Av and Gartner...

["R. DuFresne" <dufresne () sysinfo com>]

        [SNIP]

> Never understood running AV on servers.  How would they get infected?  Very
> little, if any, browser use is permitted on our servers and no email clients
> are ever run on them.  Now, if we're talking about servers in a DMZ, such as
> web servers, compromises are always a possibility, but very few of those would
> be caught by an AV.

Think mounts and shares, and network served apps.

The server does not have to become sick and infected to be the source or
part of the problem, if it's serving up infected versions of files to
others that run or open them and trust their macros.

Thanks,


Ron DuFresne
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