Re: AV - Full scans or On Access Scans

[Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU>]

On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:58:25 EDT, "David A. Batastini" said:

>                 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)?

"An interesting game - the only way to win is not to play" -- War Games

If merely checking for "Have I been hacked already?" is itself taking enough
resources to cause problems, perhaps you're starting off with the wrong
computing platform.  There *are* options...

Just sayin'. :)

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