Lets not give out the bad AV advise
Yes, AV has its issue, and yes sometimes there are false positives, but to completely remove AV from your Servers and Systems is pretty bone headed and bad advice.
AV protects against known bad programs, viruses and malware. Leaving your systems without AV or updating your AV lowers the bar for a potential attacker. Does it defend against all threats? No, definitely not, but it protects against a good number of threats. Perhaps you need to look at a different vendor then if you can't create exceptions, or do not scan directories which will help speed up machines, and you should be testing your patches or updates in a test environment before mass deployment.
The statement, you only get viruses from two things porn and warez is about as incompetent of a state I've heard in awhile. Thumb drives, remove-able media, visiting websites (non porn). http://securitylabs.websense.com/content/alertsRSS.xml
Brent if you are in charge of security for your company... which company is it again???
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