Anti-virus Software

Records and Data

Purpose

[enter-your-company-name-here] will run Anti-Virus software to maintain active and updated virus protection across all of its sites.

Policy

[enter-your-company-name-here] purchased licenses for (insert antivirus product name) for all machines in [enter-your-company-name-here]

Procedure

Anti virus automatically updates the servers at each site automatically once a week.

After this update is completed the servers ‘push out’ to all other antivirus installations on the [enter-your-company-name-here] networks these updates ensuring that every computer in [enter-your-company-name-here] is updated at least once a week as long as it is turned on.

The benefits of this are:

Removal of any manual process previously involved in updating virus protection software.
Better virus protection because automated procedures can be forgotten or ignored.
Better guarantee that virus protection software will be updated often.
Better management of virus protection software and its updates through a server/client hierarchy.

Special requirements:

It is still good for someone to check that antivirus has updated as expected once a week, and if no update has been done for 2 weeks in a row it is sometimes

Tips

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Traps

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