Colin,

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>It is amazing. In all the years I have been in the business I have never thought of scanning a server from a workkstation or backing up this way.
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Backing up and scanning is obviously slower this way, but it works fine at night. BTW, I've gotten Symantec NAV to work on Server before...what AV program doesn't work?

>I think the main reason for this is that the 'server' doubles up as an email server and therefore needs its own virus protection. Again I could take the email server function to another machine.
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What software are you using for email server and anti-virus? Does the AV scan all files that are passing through the mail server?

>Thanks for that and your other comments.
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No problem. Thank you for the discussion.