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Old 01-05-2008, 06:18 AM
Gerald S.
 
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Default Re: Virus Scanning

When I did an eval with the uvscan, it just skips over the database files.
I see very little value in teh scanning, but the customer does not agree..

"Eigenvector" <m44_master@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:NaZ6e.57$uW5.4265@news.uswest.net...
> Yeah, my company has a corporate license with McAfee, we use uvscan.
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> Can't say its any good really, the whole concept of virus's on UNIX is a
> bogus idea to me, but for what its worth the software is there. I would
> strongly advice keeping it out of your oracle databases - assuming it

could
> see them anyway.
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> "Gerald S." <geralds34ca@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
> newsKY6e.3304$MZ2.567954@news20.bellglobal.com.. .
> > Is anybody running virus scanner s/w on an AIX 5.2 box.
> > How affective is a virus scanner on an AIX server that acts as an Oracle
> > database server?
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