Re: AV - Full scans or On Access Scans

[Eric Case <ecase () EMAIL ARIZONA EDU>]

At 02:55 PM 4/9/2008 -0700, Basgen, Brian wrote:
>  We wake our computers up at night and do a deep file AV scan then,
> along with some other routine maintenance like a full spyware scan,
> inventory checks, any application updates, and so on.
>
>  Before we had wake on lan going, we did only on access scans. Needless
> to say, it missed stuff and caused various problems.

     With the diversity of equipment in my college, WOL for all
systems is still a dream.  :(  What we do is train the users to log
out of the system and leave the system on (with the monitor off).  At
9 PM most systems are fully AV scanned.  Some faculty and grad
students have asked that the time be moved, so their computers are
put in a group with the scheduled scan set for 2 AM.  (Microsoft
patches and reboots are scheduled for 5 AM.)
-Eric



Eric Case, CISSP  <ecase () Arizona edu>
Information Security Officer
College of Engineering   <http://www.Engr.Arizona.edu>
1127 E James E. Rogers Way Room 200
Tucson, AZ 85721-0020
Mobile Phone 520-275-6436