Re: Oracle and Arcserve

Joel Garry wrote:
> "Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message news:<40ab5429$0$31680$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au>...
>

>>Bear in mind, Norton Autoprotect is really designed to run on desktop 
>>PCs where users are forever receiving email and loading documents and 
>>executables from unknown sources. In that 'constant use' situation, a 
>>'constant protection agent' is a good idea. But a server is not, one 
>>hopes, receiving and opening email attachments all the time, or forever 
>>having new software from dubious sources installed on it. It probably 
>>lives behind a firewall, too. Of course, a periodic -but manual- running 
>>of an antivirus scanning program might not be a bad idea in a 
>>maintenance moment if you have one. But continual monitoring is not a 
>>good idea for a production system, I think.

With what? I didn't say "no AV". I said "no continuous AV, but periodic manual scans".

I don't know whether your comments therefore still apply.

Regards
HJR
> I saw new server with no AV, no mail,
> behind firewall with up-to-date virus protection, get hit within one
> day by WelchiaB. Remember, companies with distributed networks and
> people syncronizing mail with the outside world have plenty of holes,
> and modern worms have some pretty sophisticated engineering.
> http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.welchia.worm.html
>
> Oh, after deinfecting and installing up-to-date virus protection,
> WelchiaB came back. It seems to do that commonly, but at least the AV
> catches it.
>
> It was difficult to distinguish what was wrong with the server _next_
> to it, until its new hard drive actually failed. And people wonder
> why I diss the Wintel juggernaut.
>
> jg
> --
> @home.com is bogus. "Please review the trace files and you will see
> the VERY VERY BAD SQL statements issued by the Portal, they are long,
> nasty and done way too many times, for example, we think the most
> offending code is SELECT 'x' FROM ... used to check for table and
> object privileges, this gets called simultaneously by the Paralle Page
> Engine and it is a design problem with Oracle Portal and it WON'T
> SCALE AT ALL!!! " - quote from Oracle consultants in an old bug
Received on Wed May 19 2004 - 19:42:15 CDT