If you are not surfing the web on your web server, the need for anti-virus
is greatly reduced. There are some exceptions, of course, like being able to
upload files, etc. While not as likely to infect your server, someone can
upload a file to get virii on other people's computers that use your site.
In general, however, I recommend anti-virus on all computers, including
servers, as it is safer. Most server based AV products do not noticeably
slow down the server, esp. a web server. Remember that a web server,
generally, does not do massive amounts of work and is more likely to clog up
the network than overload the CPU. There are exceptions, of course, but a
few cycles with AV will, at worst in the average scenario, cause issues when
you place a new build on the server.
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Gregory A. Beamer
MVP, MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA
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