Antivirus Security Guidelines for PCI DSS

A good antivirus solution protects against virus attacks at the gateway and also at the server and desktop.

Gateway antivirus solutions provide a balance with the need to communicate over the Internet quickly, and the need to protect the privacy and integrity of information and services.

For an antivirus solution to be effective, it must be installed and running on every laptop, desktop, and server at system boot. It must also provide realtime scanning and be kept up-to-date with the latest signature files