Gary said:
What do you advise for an antivirus?
A good solid plan listing the threats, how you expect to arrive, and how
serious they are likely to be, so that you can decide where you need to
invest time and technology on securing things. Hate to be boring, I know
thats not the answer people expect, but thats how I see it.
And what does one
need to protect to the server when one other computer
accesses it via remote administration terminal services
mode?
A good solid plan listing the threats, how you expect to arrive, and how
serious they are likely to be.
Firewall software? Don't they make a suite like
Symantec's Norton System Works?
Just throwing security software at a machine without understand what you
need the software to do is never a good idea.
In this case, a firewall is probably a good idea if you are planning to
connect this computer to the internet, but it won't help secure it against
people accessing the computer via terminal services, for example, because
they've already gone past the firewall using your approved method to do so
and connected to the computer haven't they?
I'd certainly say that antivirus software was a good idea on this machine if
its going to be used as a terminal server. If you have a preferred brand of
antivirus software that you are comfortable with, have a look and see if
they do a version that will run on your server. But you still need to
understand how you anticipate the threats arriving on your computer in order
to be sure you've defended against them all.
