Grass Valley K2 Media Client System Guide Oct.10 2006 - Manual (Page 102)

102 K2 Media Client System Guide September 7, 2006
Chapter 6 Administering and maintaining the K2 system
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Virus scanning and protection policies
The K2 system is based on a standard Windows PC platform. It is important to defend
this system against virus or SpyWare attacks. Grass Valley supports the scanning of
the K2 system drives (the disk drives or drive partition used to house the operating
system and installed application software) from a PC that is running the scanning
program while the K2 is being used to record or play video to air. The anti-virus
package executing on the PC can be scheduled to scan the system drives of multiple
K2 Systems.
The following strategies are recommended for virus scanning:
• Run the scanning software on a dedicated PC that connects to the K2 system via a
network mount. Do not run scanning software locally on the K2 Media Client.
• Connect to the K2 Media Client via 100BaseT network. This constrains the
bandwidth and system resources consumed, so as to not interfere with media
operations. Do not connect and scan via Gigabit Ethernet.
• Grass Valley does not support the running of anti-virus programs on a K2 System
itself at the same time the system is being used to record or play video to air.
With these recommended strategies, you should be able to scan the K2 Media Client
without interrupting media access.
In addition, the following protection policies are recommended:
• Where possible, the K2 system should be run in a closed and protected
environment without network access to the corporate IS environment or the outside
world.
• If the K2 system must operate in a larger network, Grass Valley recommends that
access be through a gateway or firewall to provide anti-virus protection. The