On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Paul Crossman wrote:

>In the past I have never put anti-virus software on my Networker server
>since it can slow backups down almost to an order of magnitude.
>
>With all the virus threats and the fact that viruses keep getting into
>the network here since we don't have a "don't bring your own laptop"
>policy here.
>
>I'm interested in what people have done on Windows backup servers to
>work to prevent virus infection.
>
>Please don't reply with "Switch to Unix/Linux" as an answer.  As I'm
>typing this out, that's the first thing that popped into my head.  I
>just can't do it.  You're preaching to the choir when you say that.

Short of moving to a non-crappy OS, one option is to be sure to apply all
Microsoft security updates to your NetWorker server as soon as possible
and hope the updates do not break anything. Additionally, NEVER EVER read
email of any kind of your NetWorker server.

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