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Antivirus Experience

  • January 30, 2012 at 3:29 pm

    #99620

    I've been reading up on a lot of the best practices for installing AV on a SQL Server machine and wanted to get insight on personal experience. At my last place, we didn't have AV but we also had a 2-form authentication in our production environment. Development and Production were on separate networks and domains so they could never communicate with each other.

    At my current place, it is currently poorly designed. Everything is under the same domain, sharing same vLANs, the wrong people have access, no 2-form authentication. I'd feel better with AV installed. I would exclude the following:

    -filetypes: MDF, LDF, NDF, BAK, TRN, SQB (SQL Redgate Backup file)

    -The MSSQL install directory

    We currently have a McAfee 8.8 Enterprise license and would like to hear other's experience (did performance really degrade? data corruption?, etc).

    Thanks,

  • January 30, 2012 at 3:38 pm

    #1440284

    Also exclude the error log. (file name is ERRORLOG)

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • February 1, 2012 at 9:55 am

    #1441308

    so no one has any experience with AV at all?

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