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    What Anti-virus for WHS

    Hey guys,

    What antivirus are you using for WHS, im looking for something decent and free thats not a resource hog.

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    Re: What Anti-virus for WHS

    Do not put AV on a WHS server - just keep the OS up-to-date. AV is required on the clients, not the server.

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    Re: What Anti-virus for WHS

    yes and no, if you've got the CPU spare, putting anti-virus on a file server is quite a handy idea. It reminds me of a kid I was mentoring who said something about an STD not really been a problem for him, because its the birds who get made infertile. Luckily I don't think he was really sexually active at all.

    The problem is it doesn't fit in to the management console, or rather i've not seen one that has (i've not looked)...
    throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception)

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    Re: What Anti-virus for WHS

    Quote Originally Posted by smargh View Post
    Do not put AV on a WHS server - just keep the OS up-to-date. AV is required on the clients, not the server.
    What about if a client gets a trojan which writes an infected file on a share on a file server? If you are worried about perfornmance, at least have the AV to scan on write and leave read as exclusions. My suggestion anyway

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    Re: What Anti-virus for WHS

    i've been using CLam AV for WHS

    doesn't use up too much resource, is specifically designed for WHS so integrates into the console, its free...i can't think of any bad points really
    if it ain't broke...fix it till it is


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    Re: What Anti-virus for WHS

    A year or so ago, there were quite a few commercial WHS AV products, now almost all have vanished.

    Other than Clam AV that I see mentioned from time to time, the only other one I could find that could still be obtained was Avast.

    I dont know if there will be a resurgence in WHS AV software now that WHS2011 is getting closer to release.

    If not, commercial versions will need to be the Server editions, which are usually quite expensive.

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    Re: What Anti-virus for WHS

    I'm not too familiar with WHS, but would something like MSE not work? Or won't normal Windows apps work?

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    Re: What Anti-virus for WHS

    They need to be Server 2003 compatible, at the very least.

    I don't know if DE would cause compatibility issues... probably not.

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    Re: What Anti-virus for WHS

    Ah I wasn't aware of that, I thought with it being aimed at home users it would be able to use normal apps, or be a stripped down OS you couldn't install anything on i.e. just use plug-ins/add-ons/modules or something.

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    Re: What Anti-virus for WHS

    Well, you're not meant to install anything on it via executables. But you can RDP in and from there on... at your own risk.

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