-
February 9th, 2006, 05:07 AM
#1
Anti-virus software on database servers?
I have a friend who's a database administrator is looking for guidance. He wants to know what the best practices are running anti-virus software on a database server.
The situation he recently found himself into was the IT department installed McAfee on one of his Oracle database servers and he's concerned (feels) there's been a performance hit. Even worse the install had nothing excluded and was scanning all files, etc.
I know that there is some AV software that have database server agents...least I've heard they do. But other than the file system I'm just wondering what the threat is and/or point of installing AV to scan the transactions for example.
Anyone out there have some thoughts, tips, experience with this sort of thing?
Posting Permissions
- You may not post new threads
- You may not post replies
- You may not post attachments
- You may not edit your posts
-
Forum Rules
|
|