Seancom
06-03-2004, 08:13 AM
We work for a company where audio production is just one of our functions. Our IT department is constantly taking new measures to protect the company from outside attacks. They perform a valuable service, but the encroachment of their "this is for your own good" solutions are now affecting our productivity.
Up until a week ago, each editor was able to disable the virus protection on his workstation at will. We've always understood that virus protection can slow-down the performance. Now IT has upgraded the company's virus protection software and it is always on - the end user can't deactivate it.
We have complained to IT about the slowdowns and problems we seem to be experiencing and their response is for us to give them all of the file types we work with so they can add them to the list of types the virus protection software will exempt. They're thinking audio/video files types, but the virus protection works globally, scanning every .dll etc. The list I would have to give them would be hundreds of file types - not simply .wav, .aiff., mp3 etc.
I think this is probably a bad way to go about it. Viruses can masquerade as a number of file types - and surely as one of the types that would be on my list.
What have you all done to keep your networks safe with minimal effect to your productivity? Secondly, since I don't know a whole lot about how virus protection programs do what they do, how do typical virus scanning programs affect audio/video production performance? Would a list of file types added to the ignore list solve the problem?
I should add that we have four editors doing audio/video. Our sourcefiles are on network servers that we all pull from/write to.
Thanks!
Up until a week ago, each editor was able to disable the virus protection on his workstation at will. We've always understood that virus protection can slow-down the performance. Now IT has upgraded the company's virus protection software and it is always on - the end user can't deactivate it.
We have complained to IT about the slowdowns and problems we seem to be experiencing and their response is for us to give them all of the file types we work with so they can add them to the list of types the virus protection software will exempt. They're thinking audio/video files types, but the virus protection works globally, scanning every .dll etc. The list I would have to give them would be hundreds of file types - not simply .wav, .aiff., mp3 etc.
I think this is probably a bad way to go about it. Viruses can masquerade as a number of file types - and surely as one of the types that would be on my list.
What have you all done to keep your networks safe with minimal effect to your productivity? Secondly, since I don't know a whole lot about how virus protection programs do what they do, how do typical virus scanning programs affect audio/video production performance? Would a list of file types added to the ignore list solve the problem?
I should add that we have four editors doing audio/video. Our sourcefiles are on network servers that we all pull from/write to.
Thanks!