Now this happens, I feel smug.ġ.) I've been using MS Security Essentials for YEARS without issue and have it running on many machines also without issue, not it does not catch EVERYTHING but nothing does. So for a sense of security against unknown threats, you give an autonomous, externally controlled process, that is by design almost impossible to analyse, unfettered administrator access to your entire system. So what does it guard against? Maybe someone using a zero-day attack vector and installing an old rootkit? Why then do you need an Anti-Virus? It won't protect your services from buffer overflows or other infection vectors, it won't protect you from new rootkits unless it has wicked-sick heuristic analysis and you get lucky. This is basic stuff and is why almost all servers are infected through network bugs, which can be easily prevented by keeping services up to date and non-essential services shut down or at least firewalled off. A great admin should scan and monitor tools, even if they're from trusted sources before putting it on a live server. A good admin should scan and monitor tools that come from untrusted sources before putting it on a live server.
I just cannot possibly fathom why an executable or library could be running on a server if nobody had checked it beforehand.
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I am feeling smug about this and is not about Microsoft or Windows itself, I just simply could not understand how a professional sysadmin could ever be in a position where they must run anti-virus on a server, which seems to be common practice amongst Windows admins.Īntivirus is for checking that executables and libraries are free of malicious code. It's the only AV I've ever seen that does not conspicuously cause the system to become slow, unstable and/or quirky. MSE is good for what it is and what it does, I first tried it after reading unanimous praise of it here on Slashdot. And yes, everyone knows that Microsoft purchased the original technology (so what?). Of course since Windows is "out of favor" here, one does not necessarily mention that Microsoft's "Security Essentials" is easily as good as most commercial Windows anti-malware packages, and much more "light weight".
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