Date: 11/16/07 (IT Professionals)    Keywords: virus, antivirus

What's the best practice for the placement of a parent antivirus program (in this case, symantec corporate) in a windows server 2003 network?

I have one machine set up to recieve the internet and then act as a firewall sending data out to the rest of the network through a separate NIC. My initial thought was to be to place the antivirus primary server program on this machine (acting as the one that gets updates and distributes patterns to other servers/clients) but I'm concerned about it being in the dmz/server that's exposed to the internet... but then again, isn't that where I would want it, as a first responder to junk coming in from the internet? Or am I just asking for trouble by putting it there?

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