RE: Is Virus protection software safe on an NT / Oracle server?

You would think so, wouldn't you. But with macro viruses and the like these days, most virus scanning software that I am aware of will, by default, scan all files.

g

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Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 12:35 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Why do you scan data files with no excutable option? You have to scan executable and scripting files - not Oracle data files. It's the same like to scan pure txt files.

JP

On Mon 17. September 2001 13:15, you wrote:
> Virus scanning an Oracle datafile will bring your server to its knees,
> probably for hours. In addition, there is a danger that the virus
> scanner will find a pattern it thinks it recognizes in a data file,
and
> "quarantine" that file, stopping your database in its tracks!
>
> My advice is to run your database on a machine that only runs the
> database, has no direct connection to the Internet, and no interactive
> users in normal operation. If no-one is installing software or reading
> email on it, there is minimal chance of a virus ever getting to it.
>
> HTH,
>
> g
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 5:41 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> !! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !!
>
> Our NT Server admins have been told by the Security department that
they
> need to install virus protection software on the NT / Oracle servers.
> Does
> anyone know of any problems between Oracle and any virus software?
>
> Ron Smith
> Database Administrator
> rlsmith_at_kmg.com

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