I currently use my server for downloads and have kaspersky small office installed, however this runs out soon and as none of my other PCs are compatible with this version, I don't really want to pay £100 to renew for 1 computer.
What I was thinking is that I could run a VM on the server and install antivirus and use the VM for downloads etc, with the possible bouns of using Media Centre on W7 to extend to my Xbox's.
If I set it up this way and all the server is getting from the internet is windows updates, do I really have any need for antivirus on the server? I do have remote access enabled, but no one has write access, so no possibility of anything getting in that way either.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.
The other idea I toyed with was running windows 8 and using whs 2011 as a VM to provide the backup solution, not sure how viable this is though. (To back up 2 Windows 8 PC's).
Current server is running 8Gb RAM, and a Q6600 cpu. I've also go an old SSD I was looking to utilise in the system aswell.