best practices of installing a virus scanner on a Domain Controller (Windows Server 2008)
Hi,
A client of mine has a virus scanner (McAfee) installed on his Windows Server 2008.
The server has following services active: Exchange, Domain Controller, DNS, print services, file services, DHCP.
For some reason the server is unstable (crashes, slow responses, high memory usage) and I'm suspecting the virus scanner of being the guilty one.
Therefor my question: is McAfee a good virus scanner for a file server that hosts many small files (< 2 MB)? Or is there a better for this situation?
What are the things I should pay attention for when (re-)installing a virus scanner on this kind of server?
A client of mine has a virus scanner (McAfee) installed on his Windows Server 2008.
The server has following services active: Exchange, Domain Controller, DNS, print services, file services, DHCP.
For some reason the server is unstable (crashes, slow responses, high memory usage) and I'm suspecting the virus scanner of being the guilty one.
Therefor my question: is McAfee a good virus scanner for a file server that hosts many small files (< 2 MB)? Or is there a better for this situation?
What are the things I should pay attention for when (re-)installing a virus scanner on this kind of server?
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Somebody told me Trendmicro is good for file servers with many small files (and other virus scanners would be better in big files). Do you have any experience with that?
Not much experience. Though fast reading through a lot of small files not only depends on the scanner. It's also hardware(setup) dependent.
But that's just my personal experience. My other personal experience is switching to avast! (I'm starting to sound like some tellsell program, it's the third time this evening I recommend it). Well, I'm quite happy with it (but thats my experiene).