Re: Why NOT to disable Real Time Antivirus on Servers

[Micheal Espinola Jr <michealespinola () gmail com>]

Regardless of my already stated opinion, I do agree a lot with what
some of you are saying.  But I think a large part of the mitigation
depends on what you have in place and how its accessed, and how
controlled your environment is.

On 11/2/05, Thierry Zoller <Thierry () sniff-em com> wrote:
> 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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