Anti-virus software and SQL Server

  • Hi

    Recently, my databases went suspect and I eventually had to do full restores. Then a week later it all happend again. It turned out that Norton Anti Virus had been installed on the server and was probably corrupting the db's. Can anyone recommend a SQL server friendly anti-virus solution? Unfortunately the obvious solution of getting Norton to skip SQL Server files is not available to me.

    Thanks

    CB

  • Hi CB,

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    Recently, my databases went suspect and I eventually had to do full restores. Then a week later it all happend again. It turned out that Norton Anti Virus had been installed on the server and was probably corrupting the db's. Can anyone recommend a SQL server friendly anti-virus solution? Unfortunately the obvious solution of getting Norton to skip SQL Server files is not available to me.


    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/forum/link.asp?TOPIC_ID=15482 will probably help you.

    Personally I excluded, as in the thread mentioned, data files and logs

    Frank

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  • I agree with Franks choice as most look in realtime at what is being accessed so by excluding those that are accessed all the time it should be a non-issue on impact. We run AntiVirus on most all the corporate servers but I have yet to place on ours (but I do keep my patches current and don't let them talk to shifty computers as much as possible and I have the SQL Server behind the Web Server as far as most contact is concerned).

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