Re: OT: Av and Gartner...

[Paul Robertson <proberts () patriot net>]

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
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