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Re: AV - Full scans or On Access Scans
From: Eric Case <ecase () EMAIL ARIZONA EDU>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 20:52:59 -0700
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
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)
- Re: AV - Full scans or On Access Scans Jenkins, Matthew (Apr 10)
- Re: AV - Full scans or On Access Scans Eric Case (Apr 10)
- Re: AV - Full scans or On Access Scans Basgen, Brian (Apr 10)
- Re: AV - Full scans or On Access Scans Valdis Kletnieks (Apr 10)
- Re: AV - Full scans or On Access Scans Di Fabio, Andrea (Apr 10)
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