[cvsnt] Antivirus survey

[Herb Croken]

We are using Trend AV and had to disable realtime Scanning. With it enabled
we saw a 400% performance drop. I found this in an email passed around at
the time.

It breaks the filesystem. What seems to be happening is what gets written to
the temp files that cvs uses is different to what is read back. This is
fatal... if it was doing something like deleting the files you'd just get an
error, but Norton is return 'ok' then returning junk. You end up with a
repository where the diffs end up as diffs based on the wrong data (usually
an empty file) which is pretty irretrevable. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Oliver Giesen [mailto:ogware at gmx.net]
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 5:54 AM
To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
Subject: [cvsnt] Antivirus survey


I know the general recommendation is to not use any AV software on the
CVSNT server machine at all but OTOH we've been using Innoculate IT
without problems all along. We are however planning to upgrade/switch
to a different scanner for various CVS-unrelated reasons, possibly CA
eTrust (i.e. InnoculateIT's official successor) or TrendMicro
ServerProtect. We already have experience with both products as we've
installed them at several of our customers and in the case of eTrust
it's already what we're using on our client machines.

My question:
Does anybody have experience with these scanners in combination with
CVSNT servers/repositories? What AV products are you using? What have
you used in the past and found to be problematic? What additional steps
were necessary to make it work with CVSNT (e.g. excluding repository
folders and temp dirs from on-access scanning) if any?

I think the results of this survey might make a nice starting point for
a Wiki page...

"Which AV products work well with CVSNT, which don't and what has to be
done to make them?"

Cheers,

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Oliver
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