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Ya, should I?

If answer is yes:

What are the recommended antivirus software to go for? Kaspersky antivirus? Nod32? or any other?

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I wouldn't recommended Kaspersky Antivirus running on a Windows 2008 box at the moment because you'll need to run the Enterprise Edition which is a REAL memory hog compared to the standard Kaspersky Antivirus for Windows Servers (version 6) which doesn't support Windows 2008. We're seeing 250-300MB of ram for Enterprise Edition vs 25MB for the standard version. However, Kaspersky are releasing Maintenance Pack 4 for the standard edition in the first week of October (it's been a long time coming) which should give the standard edition Windows 2008 (& R2) compatibility, therefore that'd be the one to go for.

However, we've had very few problems with Kaspersky Antivirus on our servers over the last 4 years (a mix of 2003 & 2008 machines running Kaspersky Antivirus for Windows Servers and Enterprise Edition) and as an antivirus and malware solution it's pretty good.

SteveBurkett
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I use Forefront from MS, just install it with the /nomom tag, then its basic an security essential. I deploy it with a GPO

/NOMOM in which the /NOMOM flag installs everything except the MOM agent. If you use the /NOMOM flag, do not use the /CG and /MS flags

Ninja
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From my experience, every Windows station/server should have antivirus because of it's often security holes. Use whatever you trust, but I'll recommend you Kapspersky for Windows-Server.

Andrejs Cainikovs
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Every server should have an AV on it. I've had pretty good luck with Trend Micro on our servers.

mrdenny
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