AV - Full scans or On Access Scans

["David A. Batastini" <DavidB () URI EDU>]

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



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David Batastini, GCIH

University of Rhode Island

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