Antivirus Exclusions?

Hi

Not sure what you mean by Exclusions? If you mean AntiVirus Software then yes:

Intego Anti Virus, Sophos, MacAfee, ClamX

I've heard Avast and AVG are developing their popular AV engines for the mac platform as well. If all you wanted was a list of AV Software available you could have searched these forums yourself - it has been asked many times - or used google.

Tony

Norman

You're welcome.

If there happened to be a mac specific virus that affected the platform the same way it would on the windows platform I would think you should not exclude anything.

I've deployed OSX Server and Client in Windows environments where Sophos/MacAfee was installed. Never heard of anything detrimental to performance? If anything loss of performance was negligible when compared to PCs.

In a purely mac environment and I've not been asked or had reason to install any AV Software . . . yet. I would treat a Mail Server differently.

Tony

Normano: What are you using ?

You should proceed with great caution before allowing any A/V software "for" Mac OS X Server , to run roughshod over your data, ie: stop and think thrice before allowing it to clobber any DBs you have on that server.

I urge you to take a most critical, even outright cynical view of anything claiming to do so safely.

To date, the only legitimate concern that is Mac OS X -specific is malware that no software could readily prevent (ie: users knowingly download illegal software, knowingly provide their admin credentials, and knowingly install it).

Past that, we're not anywhere near approaching the merest start of a suggestion of a beginning of a purported possible "need" to scan "OpenDirectory" (ie: the associated OpenLDAP) db files, and you most certainly should not be doing so at any time they are in use (ie: while your server is running).

As far as Mac A/V software goes, I do not use any on any servers I maintain, with the key exception of ClamAV for mail-services. Client-side, I recommend Sophos.