Anti-Virus and Databases

General Guidelines

Prevention is better than cure. If a virus could get onto your database server and your data is valuable then you should protect it with anit-virus software. If there is a risk that you could pass an infected file on to a downstream server then you should protect with anti-virus. However, it is better to remove any way for the virus to arrive instead.

Some examples of situations where running anti-virus on your database server may be necessary...

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