Hi, Proud to say I'm not going to cover my ass (if I don't have to :). But I remember there were some worms that hit your computer even if you didn't do anything on it. One day my non-av'ed computer just went down with SoBig, I think, while Norton caught it on all other computers. So perhaps it is a good idea even on servers with restricted access.
Dola --- Peter Crowther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Mladen Turk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Antivirus software on a production system? > > You must be joking ;)! > > <rant> > Unfortunately not. All too often, corporate policy > says that *all* > boxes must have AV installed on them, and it is > increasingly a sacking > offence to disable it. The larger the corporation, > it seems, the more > likely that this is the policy. Yes, this is a > knee-jerk reaction. No, > I wouldn't expect it to change - in fact, I'd expect > it to get worse as > more middle managers play things 'safe'. So we'll > get poorly-performing > systems at best, and subtle errors that cost > organisations millions of > pounds at worst, as perfectly innocent filesystem > accesses time out due > to poor AV configuration. But, never mind, some > manager has covered > his/her ass, so everything's fine. > </rant> > > - Peter > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]