14.2. Virus and Worm Scanning
How much virus and worm scanning is enough? After all, a good security administrator is running virus scans on the mail server to catch any incoming, or outgoing, worms. Virus scanners are being run on all of the file servers, the web server, and possibly even on the firewall. Is virus scanning on the workstations necessary?
Of course it is. As has been repeatedly stated, security works best when applied in a layered approach. The more areas in which security checks are performed, the more secure the network.
Virus scanning has become a fundamental part of the security process. There are too many viruses [3] and worms on the Internet today not to perform virus scans at multiple layers, and not to have multiple levels ...
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