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Re: OT: Av and Gartner...
From: Paul Robertson <proberts () patriot net>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 21:08:28 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Jim McAtee wrote:
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
Obviously, it depends on the type of server, however (a) Administrators will occasionally pop up a browser when researching a problem. (b) SQL Slammer, NIMDA and Code Red should give enough history of server issues to make installing AV worth-while on MS platforms. (c) If end-users connect to them, then having professionally managed AV can stop things like laptop infections from un-updated machines coming inside. Paul ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Robertson "My statements in this message are personal opinions proberts () patriot net which may have no basis whatsoever in fact." probertson () trusecure com Director of Risk Assessment TruSecure Corporation _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
Current thread:
- OT: Av and Gartner... John Keeton (Jul 30)
- Re: OT: Av and Gartner... Paul Robertson (Jul 30)
- RE: OT: Av and Gartner... Bob Wanamaker - Avant Systems, Inc. (Jul 30)
- Re: OT: Av and Gartner... Jim McAtee (Jul 30)
- Re: OT: Av and Gartner... Paul Robertson (Jul 30)
- Re: OT: Av and Gartner... R. DuFresne (Jul 30)
- Re: OT: Av and Gartner... Luca Berra (Jul 31)
- Re: OT: Av and Gartner... Paul A. Henry (Jul 30)
- Re: OT: Av and Gartner... Marcus J. Ranum (Jul 31)
- Re: OT: Av and Gartner... Fritz Ames (Jul 31)
- Re: OT: Av and Gartner... Marcus J. Ranum (Jul 31)
- Re: OT: Av and Gartner... Dave Piscitello (Jul 31)
- Re: OT: Av and Gartner... Fritz Ames (Jul 31)
- Re: OT: Av and Gartner... Luca Berra (Jul 31)
- Re: OT: Av and Gartner... Gary Flynn (Jul 31)
- Re: OT: Av and Gartner... John Keeton (Jul 31)
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