Hello community,
We have been working with SEP 14.2.x on Linux machines for a little while now, and one of the consistent complaints is that scan times are taking too long...sometimes 72 hours. As it turns out, many of the machines with excessive scan times have NFS Shares. I have seen this article: https://support.symantec.com/us/en/article.TECH240686.html and realize that exclusions can be made, but unfortunately, there is no easy way for me to ask our thousands of Linux users, what directories are actually NFS Mounts.
My question, is anyone using SEP 14.2.x on their Linux machines in a corporate environment? If so, what policies have you implemented to improve the scan times, and or performance, of those Linux machines...or do you only rely on Autoprotect and skip scheduled scans altogether? If not, is there a more robust, centrally managed, AV solution for Linux machines?
We would like to stick with SEP as our Antivirus solution on Linux machines, but at this point, it feels like the SEP Linux Client will remain the overlooked Redheaded Step Child (no offense to any real readheaded step children), of SEP 14's supported operating systems, at least for the foreseeable future.
Any thoughts or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
-Mike