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antivirus &nbsp;will not &nbsp;affect print spooler, but might just &nbsp;slow printing &nbsp;a bit down upto 30sec depending on the load of the network but that should not be &nbsp;any major or minor problem
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antivirus  will not  affect print spooler, but might just  slow printing  a bit down upto 30sec depending on the load of the network but that should not be  any major or minor problem

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Hi<br />
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I am about to build a new Windows 2003 Print Server for our company. All printers are HP.<br />
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Is anyone aware if I need to set any exclusions for the anti-virus scanning on this server? For instance, the SPOOL directory.<br />
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Thanks<br />
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Hi

I am about to build a new Windows 2003 Print Server for our company. All printers are HP.

Is anyone aware if I need to set any exclusions for the anti-virus scanning on this server? For instance, the SPOOL directory.

Thanks




Print server Anti-virus exclusions

A printer is a peripheral which makes a persistent human readable representation of graphics or text on paper or similar physical media. Traditional printers are being used more for special purposes, like printing photographs or artwork, and are no longer a must-have peripheral; 3D printing has become an area of intense interest, allowing the creation of physical objects. An image scanner is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting, or an object, and converts it to a digital image. Hand-held scanners, where the device is moved by hand, have evolved from text scanning "wands" to 3D scanners used for industrial design, reverse engineering, test and measurement, orthotics, gaming and other applications.

Printers and Scanners

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

Anti-virus software was originally developed to detect and remove computer viruses. However, with the proliferation of other kinds of malware, antivirus software started to provide protection from other computer threats. In particular, modern antivirus software can protect from malicious browser helper objects (BHOs), browser hijackers, ransomware, keyloggers, backdoors, rootkits, trojan horses, worms, malicious layered service providers (LSPs), dialers, fraud tools, adware and spyware. Some products also include protection from other computer threats, such as infected and malicious URLs, spam, scam and phishing attacks, online identity theft (privacy), online banking attacks, social engineering techniques, Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), botnets and DDoS attacks.