Antivirus for Windows Home Server 2011


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FYI.??The OP asked for AV suggestions and not someone's opinion that AV isn't needed on home servers (worst advice ever, by the way).

Did a quick search and apparently MSE does not work on WHS 2011, although the threads were kind of old.

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I have to say, just because one person has been relatively lucky to have not had any viruses on his server despite not having

any anti-virus protection installed, it's extremely irresponsible and foolhardy for that person to suggest to others with their

own Windows based server setups that they needn't bother installing any anti-virus software.

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As I said, I have never encountered ANY viruses on my server. Even my client machines have only had a handful (all 5 machines put together). Nothing that my AV couldn't take care of. Also I don't constantly reformat. All machines running Windows 7 have been doing so since release in 2009, without a single format. My netbook running Windows XP has only had 1 re-format.

Good. I don't run a proper WHS as such. Just a Qnap NAS with 4 x 2TB Raid10 config running their proprietary linux OS. There is still an option to install some unheard antivirus on it but I haven't done that so far. But I schedule full network drives scan by Kaspersky 2012 every Sunday 3am.

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I'm kinda leaning towards the "bad advice".

My home server is there to download, store and serve files, not to execute programs. Files are accessed by my other machines, and if any nasties existed, they would be picked up at that point, by the AV software on those machines.

If I'm downloading anything I'm not sure about, I'll scan it via a client machine, and maybe run an online scanner on it. My firewall should take care of any other threats.

Totally open to explanations about the flaws in that logic.

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Are you guys nuts? Antivirus on all computers! MSE all the way!!!

Dear respected king of facepalms, MSE does not install on servers!

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Does anybody know a good, free AV product which covers WHS 2011? I have been using Avast, however when i went to update it, it tells me it expired 10 days ago (and didnt tell me!!) I am using MSE on all my other machines but i dont think thats compatable yet is it?

Cheers

Do you have access to a TechNET/MSDN sub? If so, grab the MS Forefront Endpoint Protection, if memory serves me correctly on the name. You'll have to dig inside the package to find the stand-alone "workstation" installer that you can install on the server. Not 100% if it will work on any "2011" MS server product though.

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Do you have access to a TechNET/MSDN sub? If so, grab the MS Forefront Endpoint Protection, if memory serves me correctly on the name. You'll have to dig inside the package to find the stand-alone "workstation" installer that you can install on the server. Not 100% if it will work on any "2011" MS server product though.

As per my earlier post, it does work :)

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Why is everyone ignoring my numerous suggestions for eset - proven to work on WHS

I believe the OP was looking for a free program, is there a free non-trial version of eset out?

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Hello,

ESET NOD32 Antivirus does work on Microsoft Windows Home Server, but it is a commercial product, not free. I suspect ESET File Security for Windows Server may work as well, but that's also a commercial product.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

I believe the OP was looking for a free program, is there a free non-trial version of eset out?

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Reminds me of a time a few years back when the company I worked for had two servers in the back room, one for hosting accounting and related information and client documentation back-ups and the other was a gateway for email. Their IT professional told them antivirus wasn't needed on the first server (and workstations too) because all the managers laptops had AV on them so viruses would be stopped there and he performed SP installs and such from physical media provided by himself so no viruses there either: the email gateway did have AV on it. Well, one day a manager came in and popped his laptop on the network to retrieve some documents and every computer in the office became infected... including the email server.

We basically had to shut down for 2 days to clean everything- which amounted to the two servers, 12 workstations and 4 laptops. The email server logs (and later conversations with clients) suggested we lost over 1000 emails, and the server had to restart several times due to the queue being filled with outgoing spam messages. Several of our clients configured their email servers to drop all incoming messages from our domain; it was that bad. Several machines kept getting re-infected because the users were too dumb and kept reconnecting them to the network because they thought they were safe after being cleaned. And to top it off, our IT guy still maintained that AV wasn't necessary... as if the cost of the AV was more than the money we lost due to the outage.

Whether the personal / local network is Internet connected or not, it only takes one infected computer connecting to the network to wreak havoc. And the last thing you want is a server that maintains back-ups to back-up infected files only to serve them back to you when you need to restore.

Some people are just so smart and sure of themselves they should be paraded around as prime examples of how the rest of us SHOULD NOT BEHAVE!

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