A good reason would be that your have just put your server under the control of some very cpu intensive software. I've seen to many cases where our networking guys cranked up Norton or some other anti virus product on the database servers and brought them to their collective knees. One of the great problems with Windoze (IMHO) is that it presents a pretty and familiar face. This results in stuff running on servers that simply should not be there (screen savers, anit viri scanners, games, etc).
I say, don't run that anti virus junk on my db server and I won't crank up SQL server on your firewall or PDC!! Don Kibbey Financial Systems Manager Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/24/04 12:54PM >>> You have to give me good reason not to run Antivirus on a server. For example, it causes the applications to hose up (which would suck but I know happens). Because I agree, there are too many opportunities for infection and a multi-layered defense is better than a single-layered defense. Signed, Once-an-Information-Security-Officer, Cyndi ----- Original Message ----- From: "uniVerse mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U2 Users Discussion List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 6:24 AM Subject: RE: UniVerse 10 on Win2k3 > up until yesterday i'd have agreed with you. However a client got infected with a virus that symantec *claims* to have known about since December, but wasn't actually detected until i sent them the sample and it appeared in last nights defs! > Virus spread via irc and *open admin$ shares* on the server - with weak administrator passwords. > Therefore the server got infected. A realtime scanner would have picked this virus up this morning. (just make sure the realtime scanner does not scan the database itself) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Anthony Youngman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Posted At: 24 March 2004 09:29 > Posted To: uniVerse > Conversation: UniVerse 10 on Win2k3 > Subject: RE: UniVerse 10 on Win2k3 > > > AARRGGHH!! > > NEVER EVER run antivirus on a server. > -- > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
