Re: Oracle and Anti-virus

astalavista wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What are your recommendations about
> oracle and anti-virus ?
> ( oracle 9.2 on windows 2000 )
> no-antivirus ?
> enable ?
>
> Thanks for your lights ...

The issue is context switching... Make sure to exclude the oracle related files if enabled. The database will crash if they get touched, so no point active file scanning and they are almost always active on a live system.

Setup a local user and harden the file system, running oracle as this user. Only this use should have access to binary files, non-interactive, which means no console logon, only service and batch. Do not grant admin local to this user. Used only to run oracle service and related binaries.

Best option is to use a hardware based firewall and only allow filtered traffic with no virus scan and with service account running the oracle service. Received on Tue Jan 16 2007 - 09:16:34 CST