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Re: AV - Full scans or On Access Scans
From: Mike Hanson <MHanson () CSS EDU>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 16:03:22 -0500
David, Our A/V (Symantec) runs "on Access". We run twice weekly anti spyware scans with a separate product (Webroot) over lunch hour. We do not have Webroot run "on Access". The A/V scan is just too intrusive to run while people are trying to work. Mike Hanson Network Security Manager The College of St. Scholastica Duluth, MN 55811 (218)-723-7097 mhanson () css edu
"David A. Batastini" <DavidB () URI EDU> 4/9/2008 2:58 PM >>>
All, I'm trying to get the pulse of what other educational institutions are doing when it comes to managing AV scans on endpoints. Do you schedule full system scans or do you rely on the "on Access" scans to detect malware? If you run full system scans: how often, and what time are they set to run? If you do not run full system scans, how do you mitigate the security risk of new malware ( malware that AV did not detect during the initial on access scan)? As you can probably guess, I'm getting negative feedback on the intrusive behavior of our complete system scans. In the past year, we've cut the frequency in half (from weekly to bi weekly) and randomized the time to try to lessen the impact. Anyone have any success stories they're willing to share? Thanks in advance, David -- David Batastini, GCIH University of Rhode Island Information Security DavidB<at>uri.edu 015 Tyler Hall p. (401) 874-2663 c. (401) 265-5515 f. (401) 874-7004
Current thread:
- AV - Full scans or On Access Scans David A. Batastini (Apr 09)
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- Re: AV - Full scans or On Access Scans Ken De Cruyenaere (Apr 09)
- Re: AV - Full scans or On Access Scans I. W. Woodle (Apr 09)
- Re: AV - Full scans or On Access Scans Mike Hanson (Apr 09)
- Re: AV - Full scans or On Access Scans Jenkins, Matthew (Apr 09)
- Re: AV - Full scans or On Access Scans Basgen, Brian (Apr 09)
- Re: AV - Full scans or On Access Scans Charlie Prothero (Apr 09)
- Re: AV - Full scans or On Access Scans Halliday,Paul (Apr 09)
- Re: AV - Full scans or On Access Scans Eric Case (Apr 09)
- Re: AV - Full scans or On Access Scans Jenkins, Matthew (Apr 10)
- Re: AV - Full scans or On Access Scans Jenkins, Matthew (Apr 10)
- Re: AV - Full scans or On Access Scans Consolvo, Corbett D (Apr 10)
- Re: AV - Full scans or On Access Scans Zach Jansen (Apr 10)
- Re: AV - Full scans or On Access Scans Marc Scarborough (Apr 10)
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